Example sentences of "[adv] cut [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 2 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 3 | So , for the very poor the home is primarily a means by which those largely cut off from the rest of society can shelter from further threats and attacks . |
| 4 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 5 | Panama remained physically cut off from the rest of the world yesterday , with the national airport closed and under US control , and the northern border with Costa Rica sealed . |
| 6 | Always use a sharp knife , and always cut away from the hand holding the tile to avoid accidents |
| 7 | A hole is made in the shell and a small cube of cells is carefully cut out from the posterior margin containing the polarizing region and grafted into the anterior margin of the limb bud of another embryo . |
| 8 | Its attraction for visitors is enhanced by being temporarily cut off from the mainland by the tides . |
| 9 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 10 | The actual implementation process which enabled the Bank to successfully cut over from the Old IBM 3090–600J to the new machine was recalled by Alan Knight , Manager , Capacity and Performance , Services Delivery , Technology . |
| 11 | The woman had short very black hair , stylishly cut away from the curve of her jaw ; her head was upright , and her firm chin rested on one hand . |
| 12 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 13 | Increasingly cut off from the Eastern churches , and with Carthage eclipsed , Rome could become the unchallenged teacher and mistress of new nations ; and they were only too prepared to learn . |
| 14 | By the nineteenth century , middle- and upper-class women were increasingly cut off from the world of production , while some working-class women regained a limited role in production outside the home . |
| 15 | He continued circling upwards and then cut away from the cove , flying over the moorland gloom before turning sharply back to observe the cove again . |
| 16 | Russia 's oblast of Kaliningrad , virtually cut off from the rest of the republic by the new Baltic States , is in a unique position . |
| 17 | Today , although virtually cut off from the outside world and still subject to army harassment , the community remains determined to stay put . |
| 18 | It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes , quite cut off from the world . |
| 19 | These detainees , convicted of taking part in attempted coups against King Hassan II in 1971 and 1972 , were held incommunicado , completely cut off from the outside world for 19 years ; the only news from them was in rare letters smuggled out . |
| 20 | Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice . |
| 21 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 22 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Some schools are eager to change , but others are merely busy with purposeless and repetitive activity : complacently cut off from the ideas and challenges that society provides ’ . |