Example sentences of "[verb] off from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willows and other small trees grew thickly on the banks of Lough Corrib , fenced off from the road . |
| 2 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 3 | The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false . |
| 4 | The fourth and fifth relate to a long-standing debate about the purpose of RE — this is the " confessional " approach which starts off from the assumption of the truth of a particular religious viewpoint and seeks to nurture pupils within , or strongly encourage them towards accepting , that viewpoint . |
| 5 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 6 | " I do hope we see some good views of puffins , " said Jane as we moved off from the mooring . |
| 7 | The ferry was not big , but she dwarfed the harbour — she had to stand off from the jetty and land us by boat — and indeed the village . |
| 8 | The minor sacred sites may have been fairly informal in layout , precincts hallowed by some long past and barely remembered appearance of a deity , but not separated off from the rest of the landscape in any visible way . |
| 9 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 10 | The couple then drove off from the beauty spot at Fort Nelson , near Fareham , Hants . |
| 11 | The tin oxide , being relatively heavy , travels only a short distance when carried by a stream of water and can be channelled off from the waste . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think you care about Donald ! ’ she said , pushing off from the cupboard , like someone striking out in a swimming bath . |
| 13 | Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly ! |
| 14 | Then a chance hole in an upstairs wall revealed an entire late-medieval solar , ‘ lined with tin , sealed off from the rest of the house . |
| 15 | The first two larval stages usually feed on bacteria , but the L3 , sealed off from the environment by the retained cuticle of the L2 , can not feed and must survive on the stored nutrients acquired in the early stages . |
| 16 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 17 | As bishop of a major city Avitus was involved in court politics to an extent that Sidonius , cut off from the centre of Visigothic power in Clermont , was not . |
| 18 | Cut off from the mass of the people by race and language , the rulers also became increasingly acquisitive in terms of land . |
| 19 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 20 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 21 | But more importantly it is a good starting place for exploring the lesser known eastern valleys which are peaceful , quiet and cut off from the rest of the Lake District . |
| 22 | They both ate , trying not to think about being in the house together , cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 23 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |
| 24 | as if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall , cut off from the rest of the Church . |
| 25 | I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones . |
| 26 | The Jews were in exile after 586 BC and found themselves cut off from the temple . |
| 27 | At regional level , too , new sources of authority emerged ; in the coastal Basque provinces , cut off from the heartland of Republican Spain , the separate Basque Republic of Euskadi came into existence ; in Catalonia , where Companys reached an accommodation with the CNT , an anti-fascist Militia Committee ran affairs independently of Madrid ; and in October Aragon became an autonomous CNT fief administered by its own regional ‘ Council ’ . |
| 28 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 29 | Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar . |
| 30 | The area became marginalised , cut off from the hub of business activity across the river . |