Example sentences of "[verb] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willows and other small trees grew thickly on the banks of Lough Corrib , fenced off from the road . |
| 2 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 3 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 4 | The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false . |
| 5 | The fourth and fifth relate to a long-standing debate about the purpose of RE — this is the " confessional " approach which starts off from the assumption of the truth of a particular religious viewpoint and seeks to nurture pupils within , or strongly encourage them towards accepting , that viewpoint . |
| 6 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 7 | " I do hope we see some good views of puffins , " said Jane as we moved off from the mooring . |
| 8 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 9 | The ferry was not big , but she dwarfed the harbour — she had to stand off from the jetty and land us by boat — and indeed the village . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The minor sacred sites may have been fairly informal in layout , precincts hallowed by some long past and barely remembered appearance of a deity , but not separated off from the rest of the landscape in any visible way . |
| 12 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 13 | The couple then drove off from the beauty spot at Fort Nelson , near Fareham , Hants . |
| 14 | The tin oxide , being relatively heavy , travels only a short distance when carried by a stream of water and can be channelled off from the waste . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think you care about Donald ! ’ she said , pushing off from the cupboard , like someone striking out in a swimming bath . |
| 16 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 17 | Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly ! |
| 18 | Then a chance hole in an upstairs wall revealed an entire late-medieval solar , ‘ lined with tin , sealed off from the rest of the house . |
| 19 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 20 | The first two larval stages usually feed on bacteria , but the L3 , sealed off from the environment by the retained cuticle of the L2 , can not feed and must survive on the stored nutrients acquired in the early stages . |
| 21 | The trouble with you is , he said , that you 've grown fat in your little cocoon here in London , cut off from the realities of the world . |
| 22 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 23 | Cut off from the only social contact and emotional support he had known , he went downhill and ended up being arrested for stealing . |
| 24 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 25 | Divested of their natural homes and hunting grounds , cut off from the renewable natural resources on which they depended , observing the continuing slaughter by visitors licensed to kill and construct , and disinherited from the financial or other benefits of these exercises , they became party to the most misguided and cynical game this century : the over-exploitation and destruction of the natural environment for the benefit of a few . |
| 26 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 27 | Cut off from the world for a weekend , what started out as a bit of a laugh for Gordon , Angus , Roy and Neville turns into a carnival of recrimination , backbiting , French cricket and sausages . |
| 28 | Cut off from the Reich by the Polish Corridor these people felt themselves to be German and to be threatened by the new Polish state . |
| 29 | The area became marginalised , cut off from the hub of business activity across the river . |
| 30 | On her lonely perch , cut off from the amiable mindless warmth of the mob , Jess shifted , taking a cautious step back towards the edge of the counter . |