Example sentences of "[be] cut off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 2 | Discarded socks can be cut off at the ankle bend to make a similar protective sleeve . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies . |
| 5 | Some boys are cut off by the tide ! " |
| 6 | So the unemployed , living on social security , usually on big council estates , are cut off from the rest of society . |
| 7 | However , these regions are cut off from the rest of the brain ( hence , roughly speaking , disconnecting speech from thought ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I am cut off at the waist for ever . |
| 11 | Despite their efforts several villages , including Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 12 | Despite the county council efforts , several towns and villages , including Tow Law , Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale , were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 13 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 14 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 15 | We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ . |
| 16 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 17 | Three 12year-olds were rescued by the Tynemouth inshore lifeboat after being cut off by the tide just south of the Marsden Grotto at South Shields . |
| 18 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That openness to liberated desire is cut off in the films which the Boxes produce . |
| 21 | As elsewhere some of the pauses between movements sound artificially curtailed ; ditto the resonance of the final notes , which as throughout the set is cut off before the applause . |
| 22 | His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder . |
| 23 | THIS NEWSPAPER PHOTO WAS CUT OFF UNDER THE CHIN FOR SECURITY REASONS , SO THAT THE BRASS PATHFINDER BROOCH WAS NOT SHOWN . |
| 24 | Later the woman 's benefit was cut off on the grounds that she and her lodger were living together as husband and wife , and he must therefore maintain her . |
| 25 | Saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills oasis ( Figure 4.5 ) string out along a valley , formerly a marine inlet , which rose and was cut off from the sea 5000–8000 years ago when the local land ice melted ( Kerry et al . , |
| 26 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 27 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 28 | Irrigation was cut off by the authorities on Aug. 22 in the Andalucian Guadalquivir valley ( south-western Spain ) , and also in Castille-La Mancha at the beginning of October . |
| 29 | ‘ Get — ’ Ace was cut off by the jolt of the speeder coming to rest . |
| 30 | Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York . |