Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] off from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pictures , together with the museum staff and the two guards accompanying them , were turfed off from the train because the guards lacked permits to carry weapons on Latvian territory . |
| 2 | Fortunately , Town were let off from this one . |
| 3 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 4 | And seven new Peugeot cars were driven off from the Central African Motor Services : two were never found . |
| 5 | With armfuls of gifts and souvenirs , the 25 youngsters and seven teachers were waved off from Parkeston Quay by their hosts — children , parents and teachers from Harwich School . |
| 6 | We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ . |
| 7 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 8 | In order to overcome this blockade — which meant that the Berlin zones controlled by America , Britain and France , were cut off from their normal supply routes — a massive ‘ Air-lift ’ was organised by the three Allies , even coal was transported by air ! |
| 9 | This sense of inherited destiny could be especially powerful for those who were cut off from their real parents . |
| 10 | His eyes were cut off from any outside flow , angry , as if two parts of his mind were fighting . |
| 11 | Of the gentry , only the Catholics who were cut off from public office and subjected to heavy fines retreated entirely into their localities and found difficulty in profiting as much as the others , yet their authority as squires remained largely untouched . |
| 12 | Japanese nationals were cut off from personal contacts with Europeans and the import of foreign artefacts , books and anything which might convey Western knowledge was banned . |
| 13 | In an organisation where a lot of people , through necessity or personal choice , were cut off from their families or friends at home , mail and letters took on a special importance . |
| 14 | The western sectors of Berlin ( entirely surrounded by the Soviet core ) were cut off from all access by land to the West , as the Soviets tried to force concessions from the Western powers on the future shape of Germany . |
| 15 | In fact , as it turned out , the great majority of the 300,000 German troops reported by Schmidt-Richberg as approaching Austria on 13 May were cut off from reaching the frontier by Tito 's forces , or were already in the process of surrendering inside Yugoslavia . |
| 16 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 17 | And a lot of times , particularly after shooting in the east , they were cut off from getting to Damascus so they had to put their tapes on the boat to Larnaca and up-link it from Cyprus . |
| 18 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 19 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 20 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |
| 21 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 22 | CHUBB Security , which was floated off from Racal Electronics last October , today published a sparkling first set of accounts as a separate company . |
| 23 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 24 | My son did get a job in a button factory and an optician 's but he was laid off from both because of lack of demand . |
| 25 | He even claimed that if the large systems division was spun off from the rest of the firm , it would be worth more than $80 a share . |
| 26 | The Postal side of the Polish Post , Telegraph and Telephone company , which was split off from the Telecoms side back in January , is to become one of the earliest recipients of an IBM mainframe running the firm 's AIX Unix implementation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 29 | In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War . |
| 30 | Syria was cut off from its finest port and Damascus — the centre of the Muslim Arab nationalist movement opposed to French rule — was weakened at the expense of Beirut and the new Christian-dominated regime . |