Example sentences of "[noun sg] separate [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
2 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
3 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
4 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
5 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
6 | Gradually he established the right to separate them from the land , to buy and sell serfs like cattle . |
7 | The women 's exclusion from the pit separated them from a share in those incomes . |
8 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
9 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
10 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
11 | No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | She had just stood there , scarcely able to breathe , and aware that only a hair 's breadth of control separated her from a fury that would shake her to her soul . |
14 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
15 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
16 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
17 | The shops on the Garlands ' side of the street backed on the water and only a narrow paved walk separated them from the harbour . |
18 | Now only another thirty yards of lawn separated them from the side wall of the house . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
21 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
22 | 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 . |