Example sentences of "to separate [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The most common method of distinguishing between production systems or types of production is to separate them into the three categories of jobbing , batch and mass production .
2 Gradually he established the right to separate them from the land , to buy and sell serfs like cattle .
3 The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . )
4 Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart , because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together .
5 The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity .
6 The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain .
7 More often , it turns into loss of direction or of purposeful organization , because no one is willing to separate herself from the rest in order to take charge .
8 " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother .
9 That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched .
10 The first of the three lamps is referred to as the backlight , and its function is to provide a rim of light from behind the subject in order to separate it from the background .
11 This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story .
12 The imposition of this ‘ necessity constraint ’ on holist explanation is enough to separate it from the individualist view that to describe the individual traits which caused a social phenomenon is to explain it .
13 They 've got enough from the stomach alone to kill him twice over and they 've still to separate it from the liver and muscles .
14 When it comes to the end of that subordinate clause , you need a comma to separate it from the main clause , which is then going to follow .
15 The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places .
16 He said I am sure I am sure that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord .
17 No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road .
18 The Chair of the Moldovan parliament , Aleksandru Moshanu , reiterated Snegur 's views , and urged that Moldova should identify itself with Romania , dropping the term " Moldovan people " which was " dogma imposed by the [ Soviet ] colonizers to separate us from the Romanians " .
19 ‘ Neither death nor life nor angels , nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come , nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God … ’
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