Example sentences of "[noun] cut off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 3 | There were rumours that a pied-billed grebe had settled on ‘ Little Sea ’ , a freshwater lagoon cut off from the coast by the gradual build-up of sand dunes . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't care for the notion that Paul Gray had his head cut off in the Cathedral . |
| 5 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 6 | She turned , arms flailing , head back , eyes open — but the gaping mouth would utter no more prophecies , her breath cut off by the red garrotte cord round her scrawny neck . |
| 7 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 8 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 9 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 10 | According to WWF team leader John McKinnon , the reserve is " like a lost world cut off from the rest of Indo-China " . |
| 11 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |
| 12 | Wide-eyed , Robbie backed away , but found her retreat cut off by the worktop . |
| 13 | As soon as they were over the bridge , a driveway cut off to the left and their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates . |
| 14 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 15 | The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture . |