Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year , the whole of the money coming in from the world A.P.F . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the film deploys sounds and images with intense effect as it explores the inner experience of a little girl closed off from the world , for whom her family is a cage tightened around her and preventing her from communicating with the world . |
| 3 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 4 | It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes , quite cut off from the world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Always in a dream , cut off from the world — and forever being dreadfully wounded over the slightest thing . |
| 8 | By the nineteenth century , middle- and upper-class women were increasingly cut off from the world of production , while some working-class women regained a limited role in production outside the home . |
| 9 | However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 11 | become cut off from the world of work … . |
| 12 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 13 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 14 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 15 | I said to Dolly that if I did n't do something you 'd be cut off from the world for a week or more . |
| 16 | She unplugged the telephone and disconnected the doorbell , resolutely shutting herself off from the world as she manipulated her characters like pieces in a board game , reading their thoughts , putting speech into their mouths , controlling their destinies . |
| 17 | I slid Lewis 's helmet on and cut myself off from the world . |
| 18 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 19 | ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . ) |
| 20 | And we are swallowed up from the world , carried in this room to a glade of an enchanted forest , magnificent and unbounded , where stand groves of pine and walnut and chestnut . |
| 21 | I have been blotted out from the world . |
| 22 | He usually travels well , but he did get a bit upset on the way back from the World Cup final in Gothenburg when we had a very rough crossing . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 24 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |