Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] off from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 2 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
| 3 | We felt less cut off from society as a whole and I was particularly pleased to be able to listen to good music on a regular basis . |
| 4 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 5 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 6 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 7 | There is an increasing number of young inmates so cut off from their feelings that they have no fear and no sense of compassion . |
| 8 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |
| 9 | The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month . |
| 10 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 11 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 12 | So , for the very poor the home is primarily a means by which those largely cut off from the rest of society can shelter from further threats and attacks . |
| 13 | Losing Out has argued that , since 1979 , a minority of the population has been progressively cut off from other people on low income , let alone those on average or high incomes . |
| 14 | So there it lay , 300 miles to the north , utterly cut off from us by the hurricanes which — according to the local weather men — were raging back and forth nearby . |
| 15 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 16 | Panama remained physically cut off from the rest of the world yesterday , with the national airport closed and under US control , and the northern border with Costa Rica sealed . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which markets Sequoia 's 68040-based fault-tolerant Unix machines as the HP 9000 Series 1200 line , has already backed off from investing new money to protect its investment in the company , where it holds an 8% stake . |
| 18 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 19 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 20 | Once cast off from the submarine they began the steady rhythm of paddling that took them along their course with a mile and a half to the beach , their sweat-raising stroke giving 3 knots — equal to a steady walking pace . |
| 21 | And then when he died and she followed him so soon , you see , I was at once cut off from all example of domestic life between the sexes . |
| 22 | We were once more cut off from reality in our underground prison . |
| 23 | She 's totally cut off from other adults during the day , and when her husband comes home in the evening , all he wants is telly and early bed … . ’ |
| 24 | Their inmates were , therefore , throughout their school life totally cut off from normality and ordinary life , which was one of the worst drawbacks of the asylum system . |
| 25 | School was going to be closed early because the rain had not stopped and the school and village were nearly totally cut off from everywhere else . |
| 26 | The action brought him round further , still shut off from outside contact , apart from the view through the lens . |
| 27 | Attitudes are still read off from attributes . |
| 28 | In both Milton and Virgil the first two books are clearly separated off from what follows ; Wordsworth begins a new theme with Book iii , and also observes the traditional break at the end of Book vi , the halfway point of the poem . |
| 29 | Moreover , in its initial area , unlike in London , there were few original residents to displace and environmental improvements succeeded in granting access to large stretches of the waterfront formerly sealed off from the public . |
| 30 | The London English sequence here is clearly set off from the rest of Brenda 's turn by its function , which is to elicit a " lost " piece of information . |