Example sentences of "separate [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before .
2 ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays .
3 A bank of sand separated between the sea and an inner expanse of shore , in which the bed of Rossie Burn was pillowed among undulating slopes clad with a profusion of sea-grasses ; at full tide it seemed like a fresh-water lake , at ebb tide but a marshy waste , only the stream meandering along its time-worn groove .
4 It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened :
5 It also fails to explain how the theoretical practice of science can be separated for the purposes of knowledge production from other practices that are the hallmark of ideology in Althusser 's account .
6 They became separated near the river which had become swollen in torrential rain and gales .
7 The ventral arm plates are pentagonal to square with a rounded or sometimes concave distal edge ; they are usually separated throughout the arm .
8 With enough data , fertility trends can be separated into the components due to period and to cohort effects ( Hobcraft , Menken , and Preston 1982 , Ryder 1980 ) .
9 The units are separated into the following areas :
10 Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) .
11 But if at the eight-cell stage the embryo was separated along the plane of the third cleavage into two groups of four cells , then each of these two fragments developed quite differently .
12 The dorsal arm plates are small , triangular and separated along the length of the arm .
13 The first ventral arm plate is triangular , subsequent ones pentagonal with the distal edge becoming more convex distally , separated along the length of the arm ; the proximal ones appear to be slightly swollen .
14 This leads to the formation of gullies separated along the scarp by characteristic triangular facets ( Fig. 3.33 ( B ) ) .
15 Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK .
16 This observation has direct bearing on questions of authenticity , since a detail may be the way that the true can be separated from the false .
17 Gimmer Crag forms a head separated from the steep hillside by these two obvious gullies , which both start at the same point .
18 The conviction carried by how things are in his fiction can not be separated from the sense that they might be otherwise .
19 Raskolnikov is self-divided and also separated from the human family in a way which for Dostoevsky is both social and religious .
20 Thus we commend the Bible to be read by the Churches and by Christian families in their homes , as nourishment for their souls , and not to be separated from the sacrament in the liturgy ; we commend modern translations , into the various languages , as a help to understanding ; we commend the people who have the duty of seeking to interpret the Bible in terms of the modern scientific view of the world ; and remind the Churches that all knowledge is of God and therefore that scientific discovery is also part of His work ; and so the world will be brought to know God as its Maker , and the Cross as timeless .
21 A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others .
22 Ingólfshöfdi is an island about six or seven kilometres off-shore , but separated from the mainland by a saltwater lagoon rather than by open sea .
23 Asger Jorn 's interest in folk cultures and tribal societies which lacked a notion of ‘ art ’ as a distinct intellectual practice separated from the common culture , was based on an understanding of the extent to which the spheres of art and work have become conflicting practices within bourgeois relations of production .
24 Separated from the main living area are a toilet , shower , and wash basin .
25 Beyond the dining-room , in the north-west corner of the main block , a breakfast/dining-room was located , separated from the bathroom and dressing room associated with the main bedroom , by a dogleg staircase located at the centre of the north-west elevation ( Fig 55 ) .
26 IN THE early 1920s , one of the daughters of the Reverend Puxley who resided at the rectory at that time , was playing on the lawn , then separated from the road by a thick laurel hedge .
27 One was Italian , one French ; both were separated from the street by extensive terraces and were distinctly expensive .
28 From William the Conqueror onwards the Church Courts are separated from the Lay Courts : the Bishop has his court ; the Archbishop a superior or prerogative court ; from him before the Reformation there is an appeal to the pope .
29 How may Catholics ensure that the Eucharist does not become separated from the salvation it witnesses to in Christ ?
30 If it is true that humankind is fallen , that we are separated from the presence of God by our failure and helplessness and are in need of God 's forgiveness , Abelard 's views do not reflect sufficiently well the seriousness of our predicament .
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