Example sentences of "[noun] separate [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At Leeds , for example , not only are fans separated in this way , but a wedge-shaped piece of terracing at the corner of the visiting fans ' terrace is designated a ‘ no-man's-land ’ , surrounded by high fencing , and kept empty .
2 The privacy and identity that they possessed by living in family homes separated from other families , even when members of co-operatives , would be broken down under the new arrangements .
3 Whereas silver separated from natural alloys is liable to contain perceptible traces of other metals , that obtained by the cupellation process shows up by its high degree of purity .
4 The response of schools to the need to manage things for themselves has partly been linked with their development as organizations separate from central government and local authorities and partly with the preservation of teacher freedom .
5 His almost pathological dread of producing a legato line means that instead of drawing us a picture of clear , flowing melodies he leaves little join-up-the-dots type sketches with the notes separated from each other by wide open spaces which even the generous resonance of St Peter 's , Waltrop ( near Dortmund ) can not adequately fill .
6 Gharial females bury up to forty eggs , usually in two tiers separated from each other by a thick layer of sand .
7 The campanile was the first in the city to have a clock that struck the hours ( although that of the church of Sant' Eustorgio was the first to have had a clock , in 1306 ) In its lower part the campanile is square , but it soon becomes octagonal , rising in elegant brickwork tiers separated by delicate friezes .
8 24 hours later extracts were prepared and the acetylated forms of chloramphenicol separated by thin layer chromatography .
9 It covered at least 22,000 square metres and possibly twice that area , consisting of rather irregular blocks of houses separated by cobbled streets .
10 The single nuclei separated in this way were filtered through 37 µm nylon mesh ( Tokyo Screen , Tokyo ) and smeared on microscope slides using a Cytospin 3 ( Shandon Inc , England ) .
11 At a ceremony in Windhoek , the capital , the South African flag was lowered at midnight on the evening of March 20 , and was replaced by the newly designed flag of the Republic of Namibia ( composed of diagonal stripes of blue , red and green separated by white lines , with a golden sun at the top near the hoist ) .
12 This RARE is composed of two GGTGACC motifs separated by seven nucleotides , each motif being the sequence recognized by the restriction enzyme BstEII ( manuscript in preparation ) .
13 But the Iranian foreign minister , Ali Akbar Velayati , appealed to western countries to keep the Rushdie issue separate from bilateral relations with Iran .
14 Terms of reference that go beyond these matters will result from discussions between the parties , and probably the expert as well , where it is convenient to have terms of reference separate from procedural directions .
15 Apparently the dualistic phenomenon of a body of commercial law separate from civil law need not be reinstated .
16 Streaked white forehead and dark undersides of primaries separate from Royal Tern in winter , when Caspian 's bill may also be orange-yellow .
17 Thus conservatives — try as they may to isolate their theology in a cocoon separate from human knowledge , culture and society-are in trouble .
18 Before actual fracture occurs , in the sense that the specimen separates into two pieces , there is extensive flow , something like a viscous liquid , in the body of the material .
19 In most insects , however , the greater part of the cuticle undergoes a process of sclerotization whereby it becomes hardened and darkened to form more or less tough , rigid sclerites separated from each other by membranous zones of unchanged soft cuticle .
20 The vast room of 21.3 x 5.4m ( 70 x 18ft ) had been divided into three classrooms separated by half-glazed partitions .
21 Fossils from more recent strata showed progressively less similarities with time in the different continents ; this he attributed to the contrasting evolutionary paths of groups of animals and plants separated by continental drift .
22 Nursery beds In the garden plan , the work area includes four small raised beds separated by 30 cm cement paths .
23 The meeting separated in great content with the Conservative Party all round .
24 Some polymers are ore obviously multiphase than others ; for example , block copolymers separate into different phases of quite large dimensions .
25 They behaved as a group separate from conventional life .
26 Inside , it is decorated all over walls and vault with biblical scenes , the figure groups and panels separated by arabesque banding .
27 The MacBrides separated after two years .
28 They consist essentially of a series of sharp headlands of shingle separated by sweeping bays ( Fig. 8.16 ) .
29 Because glass is transparent , this could indicate she is afraid of being ‘ seen through ’ , or of feeling separated by unseen barriers .
30 Christina joked , before Stephen guided them out of the lobby and down a path past a row of mahogany trees separated by bright thickets of hibiscus .
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