Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] off from the rest " in BNC.

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1 The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn .
2 So , for the very poor the home is primarily a means by which those largely cut off from the rest of society can shelter from further threats and attacks .
3 Panama remained physically cut off from the rest of the world yesterday , with the national airport closed and under US control , and the northern border with Costa Rica sealed .
4 The London English sequence here is clearly set off from the rest of Brenda 's turn by its function , which is to elicit a " lost " piece of information .
5 There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons .
6 Russia 's oblast of Kaliningrad , virtually cut off from the rest of the republic by the new Baltic States , is in a unique position .
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