Example sentences of "[noun] separate [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances .
2 On the north side of this Paddock a low wall separates it from some buildings occasionally used for canine patients , but chiefly as a Storage …
3 To stop splatter from spilling into the conversations of people using analogue phones , the digital frequencies require buffer zones of precious spectrum to separate them from analogue channels .
4 Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side .
5 When the ILP had been a founding organization of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 , its opposition to the " Liberal-Labour " position separated it from many trade-union officials and earned their Suspicion .
6 Tragedy of twin too weak to survive alone Three-year-old girl dies after 15-hour surgery to separate her from Siamese sister
7 Claudia drove the ten miles separating them at reckless speed .
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