Example sentences of "separating [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
| 3 | Watching Bowe at work in a giant tent in the back lot of the Mirage Hotel , pawing at sparring partners with less conviction than the white tigers in the hotel lobby paw at the glass separating them from gamblers , is to share the doubts . |
| 4 | City are thus able to check the Premier table to find they have eight teams below them with a gap of nine points separating them from the relegation zone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Many spouses blame this conflict on the organization , and this is reinforced by their partners who similarly blame the organization For separating them from their families . |
| 7 | The poor see the lumpy , soapy tourists and they harbour thoughts of separating them from their possessions . |
| 8 | These are usually studied by separating them from a crushed rock with heavy liquids , notably tetrabromoethane , which is extremely toxic . |
| 9 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 10 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 11 | If a poet writes about ‘ Stella ’ , what she does , what her attributes are , by the use of the third-person form he has acknowledged a certain distance separating himself from his beloved . |
| 12 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 13 | Or is she the dark , instinctive force which Pamina must acknowledge and cease to accept unquestioningly , separating herself from it so that she can grow and begin her life 's journey ? |
| 14 | In his portrayed public image , Hitler was able to offer a positive pole in the Third Reich , transcending sectional interests and grievances through the overriding ideal of national unity , made possible through his necessary aloofness from the ‘ conflict sphere ’ of daily politics , separating him from the more unpopular aspects of Nazism . |
| 15 | I thought it probable the police were right , he had sought revenge against Imogen Surkov for separating him from his nice third wife , Vera , and their son . |
| 16 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 17 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
| 20 | The street was wider there and Owen 's men found it easy to slip round the Sheikh separating him from his followers and surrounding him . |
| 21 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 22 | But Coleridge soon discovered the shortcomings of Clevedon , and especially the inconvenient distance separating it from his literary friends in Bristol , and from the indispensable Bristol City Library . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then followed a resolution naming the London committee ‘ The Veterinary College , London ’ , and separating it from its parent , the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 25 | Rufus seized the kingdom in 1088 , separating it from his brother Robert , who remained as Duke of Normandy . |
| 26 | But still , it was on the fringe of The Courts , with only the railway line separating it from Salford . |
| 27 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 28 | In non-metropolitan England and Wales and in Scotland , housing is allocated to the districts , thus separating it from the personal social services . |
| 29 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 30 | We can define a system as an organised unitary whole composed of interdependent parts or sub-systems and with boundaries separating it from its environment and other systems . |