Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world . |
| 2 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 3 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 4 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes , quite cut off from the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |