Example sentences of "[be] [verb] off from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 3 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |
| 4 | That proposal has a number of different themes to it ; briefly , Channel Four would be floated off from the IBA and would then be franchised as any other ITV company . |
| 5 | The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false . |
| 6 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | … 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 . |
| 9 | The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) . |
| 10 | The first is whether ownership of the national track should be split off from the running of services , as recommended by Kenneth Irvine of the Adam Smith Institute . |
| 11 | After syndication , these warrants can be split off from the bond and traded separately . |
| 12 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
| 13 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
| 14 | Valves are fitted in the hot and cold water supplies so that the water can be cut off from the whole system or from individual branches . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Alternatively the quantities can be taken off from the drawings or extracted from the builder 's estimate . |
| 17 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 18 | The position a reader will take up certainly can not in any simple sense be read off from the text considered in abstract . |
| 19 | The consequences of elite control can be read off from the record of policy formulation and implementation in liberal democracies . |
| 20 | Teleologies produce stable narratives in which the meaning of any conjuncture can be read off from the ‘ stage ’ it is supposed to represent in the dynamic unfolding of some ultimate and pre-defined goal . |
| 21 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
| 22 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 23 | So the unemployed , living on social security , usually on big council estates , are cut off from the rest of society . |
| 24 | However , these regions are cut off from the rest of the brain ( hence , roughly speaking , disconnecting speech from thought ) . |
| 25 | Only 130 of the original population of 1,000 Arara Indians survive , according to Fiona Watson of Survival International , and 40 of these , contacted for the first time in 1988 , are cut off from the main community by the Bannach road . |
| 26 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 27 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |
| 28 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 29 | A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment . |
| 30 | In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files . |