Example sentences of "separating [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 2 | Pauline Crook had difficulty separating from an intense attachment to her own mother , whose death , shortly after Pauline 's marriage , aroused her guilt . |
| 3 | Plate tectonics appears to be the device , unexplained in Wegener 's day , that permits the continents to drift : it is a process whereby the rigid , relatively cool plates that cover the earth 's hot and partially plastic asthenosphere , forty miles down , shift slowly about , colliding and separating from the other plates by turn . |
| 4 | It seems to be saying that the Queen of Hell , separating from the Sacred Bride/Divine Mother , becoming the Boar , fusing with Adonis , transforming him to Tarquin , and then destroying the Sacred Bride/Divine Mother under the illusion that she is the Queen of Hell , is the perpetuum mobile of the Equation . ’ |
| 5 | Dobry 's detailed recommendations ( which totalled 161 ) were aimed in his words , at giving greater freedom to harmless development but also at guarding against harmful development by retaining the current scope of planning control ; at separating from the main stream of applications all those which might cause harm , and disposing of ‘ main stream applications ’ by rapid and routine procedures ; and applying the same approach to appeals . |
| 6 | The Glass-Steagall Act in the US , separating to a large extent the banking and securities business , is a good example of the difficulties inherent in transposing one set of regulatory values to another jurisdiction , in particular the UK , where no such prohibitions exist . |