Example sentences of "been [vb pp] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 2 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |
| 3 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 4 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |
| 5 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 6 | A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment . |
| 7 | In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files . |