Example sentences of "[adv] cut [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Its attraction for visitors is enhanced by being temporarily cut off from the mainland by the tides . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Russia 's oblast of Kaliningrad , virtually cut off from the rest of the republic by the new Baltic States , is in a unique position . |
| 8 | It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes , quite cut off from the world . |
| 9 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 10 | ‘ Some schools are eager to change , but others are merely busy with purposeless and repetitive activity : complacently cut off from the ideas and challenges that society provides ’ . |