Example sentences of "separated [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.

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1 But Rome , separated from Ireland by a continent in upheaval , had little means of implementing her decrees or ensuring their enforcement .
2 Weaving region : Asian part of Turkey , separated from Europe by the Bosphorus .
3 A clearing opened ahead , separated from Trent by a fan of palm fronds .
4 But even if he had not been separated from Alexei by duty , and leaving aside the connivance of Irina 's family , a gap would have existed between them .
5 If is separated from P by an infinitesimal distance then is the local vector .
6 The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front .
7 For example , the uranyl salt , UO2(NO3)2 , may be separated from NaCl by using butanol and water .
8 Wirral is a predominantly white community of about 340,000 people fairly tightly packed onto a peninsula separated from Wales by the River Dee and , as we have said , from Liverpool by the River Mersey .
9 I was separated from Susan by a flood of flailing humanity .
10 Figure 8.11(a) depicts the derivation of signals of equal amplitude but separated in phase by π radians through the action of a centre-tapped transformer .
11 Two days to trace the history of twins separated at birth by the Social work department .
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