Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] from the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 2 | Projects least vulnerable to the accusation that they are dealing with non-problems are those initiated by the International Chamber of Commerce , the membership of whose Com-missions is drawn preponderantly from the world of industry and commerce , banking , shipping , and arbitration . |
| 3 | However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world . |
| 4 | And we are swallowed up from the world , carried in this room to a glade of an enchanted forest , magnificent and unbounded , where stand groves of pine and walnut and chestnut . |
| 5 | The cut was n't deep ; but her mind felt cleaved , riven away from the world she knew . |
| 6 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 7 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 8 | Despite increasing integration into the market , the village remained in large measure set apart from the world outside , regulating its own affairs through customary law under the tutelage of the police . |
| 9 | Despite increasing integration into the market , therefore , the village remained in large measure set apart from the world outside , regulating its own affairs through customary law under the tutelage of the police . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes , quite cut off from the world . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . ) |
| 16 | Mr Rushdie , who recently declared on television that he was no longer prepared to remain shut away from the world , spent the evening with a few favoured friends . |
| 17 | I have been blotted out from the world . |