Example sentences of "[vb pp] off from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a toxic emission given off from car exhausts |
| 2 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |
| 3 | While redundancy rights can sometimes arise in the context of men being laid off from work or put on short time , in the case of a business executive , redundancy almost always involves a dismissal . |
| 4 | Many should have been laid off from work as a consequence of the government 's deflationary policies . |
| 5 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 6 | I would n't advocate a university that would be cut off from society . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When listening to unskilled workers we found that what was pre-eminent in their minds was the sense of being cut off from involvement in a product . |
| 9 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 10 | French nationals were evacuated by French army helicopter from both towns , which were now virtually cut off from contact with the outside world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Aid trucks have been stopped from reaching Muslim areas there for a month by the Bosnian Croats who control the roads ; 1.3m people have been cut off from aid . |
| 13 | The Autonomous Region of South Ossetia continued to come under heavy attack from Georgian forces sited outside its capital , Tskhinvali , which was cut off from aid ; there were reports of hostage-taking . |
| 14 | It 's not really part of Foulness — if you look closely you can see that it 's cut off from Foulness proper by a sort of strait linking the rivers Roach and Crouch . |
| 15 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
| 16 | We were once more cut off from reality in our underground prison . |
| 17 | In this imagery the liberal democratic state is run exclusively by elected governing elites and/or the bureaucracy , but both groups are cut off from control by broader social movements , political parties , or socially privileged groups ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 18 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The country will , in effect , act as a banker , paying for new stations and being paid off from revenue over about three years . |