Example sentences of "[verb] off from the world " in BNC.

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1 The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side .
2 Cut off from the world for a weekend , what started out as a bit of a laugh for Gordon , Angus , Roy and Neville turns into a carnival of recrimination , backbiting , French cricket and sausages .
3 Always in a dream , cut off from the world — and forever being dreadfully wounded over the slightest thing .
4 Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy .
5 I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world .
6 However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world .
7 What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations .
8 The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff .
9 It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it .
10 It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes , quite cut off from the world .
11 Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them .
12 By the nineteenth century , middle- and upper-class women were increasingly cut off from the world of production , while some working-class women regained a limited role in production outside the home .
13 I said to Dolly that if I did n't do something you 'd be cut off from the world for a week or more .
14 Nevertheless , the film deploys sounds and images with intense effect as it explores the inner experience of a little girl closed off from the world , for whom her family is a cage tightened around her and preventing her from communicating with the world .
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