Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] off from 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 | Anglian Water Authority claims that the water drawn off from the lake is still safe despite these problems because of the treatment it gives the water before it reaches people 's taps . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | The Davidians split off from the Sabbath Day Adventist church in the nineteen thirties . |
| 9 | According to WWF team leader John McKinnon , the reserve is " like a lost world cut off from the rest of Indo-China " . |
| 10 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture . |