Example sentences of "[been] cut off [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In his opinion there was no doubt that Miss Ward 's head had been cut off with a single blow from a sharp instrument .
2 During talks on Feb. 2 the two sides agreed to resume border trade which had been cut off since the 1962 Sino-Indian War .
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 .
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