Example sentences of "be [vb pp] off from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 2 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 3 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
| 4 | Valves are fitted in the hot and cold water supplies so that the water can be cut off from the whole system or from individual branches . |
| 5 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 6 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 7 | Only 130 of the original population of 1,000 Arara Indians survive , according to Fiona Watson of Survival International , and 40 of these , contacted for the first time in 1988 , are cut off from the main community by the Bannach road . |
| 8 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
| 9 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 10 | And seven new Peugeot cars were driven off from the Central African Motor Services : two were never found . |
| 11 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 12 | The telephone system bequeathed by the socialist regime is another dampener : being cut off from the outside world is bad for business . |
| 13 | What bothers her the most is the feeling of being cut off from the outside world . |
| 14 | They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure . |
| 15 | Furthermore , this structure is split off from the actual social structure they carry ‘ in their minds ’ and which they internalise from their own culture . |
| 16 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |