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Example sentences of "off from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files .
2	Moreover , in its initial area , unlike in London , there were few original residents to displace and environmental improvements succeeded in granting access to large stretches of the waterfront formerly sealed off from the public .
3	Michael Heseltine took time off from the campaign to meet his rubber double and Mike Rowbottom was there .
4	But now she felt cocooned in her own private shell of misery , as cut off from the noise and activity around her as if she were frozen in ice .
5	I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp .
6	RUGBY LEAGUE came out of the north of England because a number of Yorkshire and Lancashire businessmen thought that talented lads should be compensated for time they took off from the pit or the plant .
7	The position a reader will take up certainly can not in any simple sense be read off from the text considered in abstract .
8	First , and hardest , by making sure that as Poland and Hungary wriggle free from the East they do not find themselves blocked off from the West .
9	The interiors of a number of parish churches were similarly transformed as the Laudian bishops campaigned vigorously for the erection of altars positioned permanently at the east end of the chancel and railed off from the nave .
10	He dashed into the nearest shop doorway at the cab took off from the kerb again and accelerated away down the street .
11	She made her way down the corridor that led off from the bar room , continually glancing over her shoulder , half expecting to see either her father or her uncle behind her .
12	The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) .
13	Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago .
14	As long as Corinth led the Peloponnesians , Athens had the best of it , though she was sufficiently alarmed to build the Long Walls , which secured communications between Athens and her harbour city of Piraeus : in future , Spartan invasions would not cut Athens off from the sea ( Thuc. i. 107 ) .
15	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 . ,
16	But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources .
17	In the second half of the 1850s the Ministry of Education abolished enrolment quotas , exempted the badly off from the payment of fees , readopted the principle of despatching promising scholars to western Europe for postgraduate training , allowed women to attend lectures , ended the practice of monitoring students ' off-campus behaviour , reintroduced contentious subjects like west European law and the history of philosophy , and appointed broad-minded officials to the headships of the empire 's educational districts .
18	What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic .
19	Pascoe closed himself off from the knowledge , like someone turning to face a wall .
20	I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones .
21	The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months .
22	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 .
23	In addition rituals and procedures are laid down for those who have for a variety of reasons become ‘ unclean ’ , and so have become cut off from the rest of the community .
24	The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false .
25	In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world .
26	A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason .
27	The mist cut them off from the rest of the field .
28	Then a chance hole in an upstairs wall revealed an entire late-medieval solar , ‘ lined with tin , sealed off from the rest of the house .
29	For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire :
30	On Thursday 3 October , a bomb caused a large crater in London Road , Thornton Heath , between Dunheved Road North and Dunheved Road South , cutting the depôt off from the rest of the Croydon system .