Example sentences of "separated from [noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was separated from Susan by a flood of flailing humanity . |