Example sentences of "be separate [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is actually a binary , but the two components are so close together that they can not be separated with ordinary telescopes .
2 Bottles and containers can be made from a variety of plastics which , like coloured glass , must be separated into pure and therefore more economically viable batches or be down-graded and have restricted re-use .
3 The results of such diagnostic inquiries could be separated into individual companies or divisions within companies , or depots within divisions .
4 With appropriate sieves , particles varying between 0·002 and 250 mm may be separated into regular size class intervals .
5 Even the early sea-urchin embryo can be separated into single cells and will reform a more or less normal embryo .
6 In principle it is impossible because skills are by their nature totally integrated and interactive so that they can not meaningfully be separated into independent parts .
7 Although such mixtures can not be separated by fractional distillation , they can be separated by other means .
8 There is , however , the difference that when heat is the driving component then layers are simply separated by narrow regions with steep gradients , but when salt concentration is the driving component they must be separated by other dynamically active layers — the ones containing salt fingers .
9 However , only those which deviate to a lesser extent can be separated by fractional distillation .
10 Liquid mixtures which deviate widely from ideal behaviour can not be separated by fractional distillation .
11 The reason azeotropic mixtures can not be separated by fractional distillation is that they have maximum or minimum boiling points .
12 Although such mixtures can not be separated by fractional distillation , they can be separated by other means .
13 Thus a matrix of ordered regions with disordered interfacial areas is formed , but , unlike materials with small molar masses , the ordered and disordered regions are not discrete entities and can not be separated by differential solution techniques unless the solvent causes selective degradation of the primary bonds in the amorphous regions .
14 Also , there is no reason why canonic sections can not be separated by suitable interludes , possibly using homophony as a relief to polyphony , while the ending could be a non-canonic coda .
15 The notion that there is a realm of public or political authority which can and should be separated from economic relationships is a pervasive one throughout Western political thought .
16 Social action can never be separated from practical constraints or from social control .
17 Since the Aberfan disaster in 1966 , the law requires that overburden be separated from other waste , and the dumping technique produces a new shape .
18 As such they can be separated from external resources such as practical help , information and emotional support .
19 Nowhere can economic autonomy be separated from political autonomy , and least of all in the Soviet Baltic states , where separatism stalks every debate .
20 The movement could never be separated from political questions whatever its leaders wanted , for the question of non-conforming raised the question of establishment , itself a political question dating to the anti-church rate campaigns of the 1830s and the creation of the British Anti-State Church Society by Edward Miall in 1844 .
21 In Guatemala and El Salvador , education can not be separated from political struggles for a number of reasons .
22 Passengers will have to be separated from light commercial vehicles , light vehicles with caravans or trailers and mixed-use vehicles like campers and mobile homes .
23 While Iraq demanded the unconditional release of all prisoners-of-war ( PoWs ) and their return to their countries of origin on " humanitarian and legal " grounds , Iran insisted that the issue of prisoner exchange could not be separated from territorial questions and called for the simultaneous withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi troops from each other 's territory with prisoner exchange .
24 To what extent can global politics be separated from domestic politics ?
25 Equally , the office could never be separated from parliamentary politics , and the frequent elections for the office provided a ready means to measure the strength of political interests .
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