Example sentences of "separating [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These are usually studied by separating them from a crushed rock with heavy liquids , notably tetrabromoethane , which is extremely toxic .
2 If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 In non-metropolitan England and Wales and in Scotland , housing is allocated to the districts , thus separating it from the personal social services .
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