Example sentences of "[verb] off from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 2 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 3 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 4 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 5 | Cut off from the only social contact and emotional support he had known , he went downhill and ended up being arrested for stealing . |
| 6 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 7 | When I remarked on this to the doctor 's wife , she explained that the town was under virtual siege , cut off from the central government . |
| 8 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 9 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 10 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 11 | High among the bright snows of the Crystal Mountain , cut off from the immediate claims and responsibilities of life in time in the twentieth century , Matthiessen experiences a joy at the heart of the created order to which he belongs , a oneness with it . |
| 12 | On her lonely perch , cut off from the amiable mindless warmth of the mob , Jess shifted , taking a cautious step back towards the edge of the counter . |
| 13 | Here , then , in a temenos , a holy place , cut off from the profane , she would have ten days of solitude . |
| 14 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 15 | Divested of their natural homes and hunting grounds , cut off from the renewable natural resources on which they depended , observing the continuing slaughter by visitors licensed to kill and construct , and disinherited from the financial or other benefits of these exercises , they became party to the most misguided and cynical game this century : the over-exploitation and destruction of the natural environment for the benefit of a few . |
| 16 | These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart . |
| 17 | Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney . |
| 18 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 19 | She bounded upstairs , her bare feet silent on the cast-iron staircase , and pushed open one of the three identical wooden doors that led off from the galleried landing . |
| 20 | The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi-darkness . |
| 21 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 22 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 23 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 24 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 25 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 26 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 27 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 28 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 29 | The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month . |
| 30 | Starting off from the old town hall in the middle of the High Street he made his way slowly down the road as far as the Black Bull pub , accompanied by Mr Tim Devlin , who holds the Stockton South with a slender 774 majority , and his wife Carol . |