Example sentences of "[was/were] cut [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ .
2 I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp .
3 Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ .
4 In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world .
5 This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith .
6 In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen .
7 Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death .
8 Saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills oasis ( Figure 4.5 ) string out along a valley , formerly a marine inlet , which rose and was cut off from the sea 5000–8000 years ago when the local land ice melted ( Kerry et al . ,
9 Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels .
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