Example sentences of "[pron] separate [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches . |
| 2 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 3 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 4 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 5 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 6 | Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class . |
| 7 | What separates them from the dwindling ranks of mediocre C86-type bands are their songs : sparkling things that are packed full of love-drenched sentiments , mood-lifting hooklines and wonderful tunes . |
| 8 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 9 | It is accepted that what separates us from the other creatures sharing our planet is our capacity to think . |