Example sentences of "separate [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe .
32 In his portrayed public image , Hitler was able to offer a positive pole in the Third Reich , transcending sectional interests and grievances through the overriding ideal of national unity , made possible through his necessary aloofness from the ‘ conflict sphere ’ of daily politics , separating him from the more unpopular aspects of Nazism .
33 Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean .
34 Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make .
35 A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days .
36 Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died .
37 Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom .
38 Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them .
39 The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again .
40 The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street .
41 It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses .
42 In non-metropolitan England and Wales and in Scotland , housing is allocated to the districts , thus separating it from the personal social services .
43 To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it .
44 The adoral shields are large , slightly convex and situated totally proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
45 The adoral shields are nearly rectangular and situated almost entirely proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
46 They lie proximal to the oral shield and not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
47 The adoral shields are large and are restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
48 The adoral shields are short , slightly curved and situated proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
49 The adoral shields are slightly convex occupy a large portion of the jaw proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
50 The adoral shields are curved and situated proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
51 The adoral shields are large , not particularly wing-like , restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
52 The adoral shields are convex , restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield and not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
53 The adoral shields are small slightly convex but not particularly wing-like , and restricted to the proximal edges of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate .
54 The adoral shields are approximately triangular and restricted to the proximal sides of oral shields , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate ; they often do not meet in the midline proximal to the oral shields .
55 It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) .
56 On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood .
57 They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway .
58 Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world .
59 Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend .
60 Separate them from the parent plant , transferring the new plants to growbags in early September , half a dozen plants to a bag .
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