Example sentences of "be cut off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 2 | Discarded socks can be cut off at the ankle bend to make a similar protective sleeve . |
| 3 | I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions . |
| 4 | Valves are fitted in the hot and cold water supplies so that the water can be cut off from the whole system or from individual branches . |
| 5 | I said to Dolly that if I did n't do something you 'd be cut off from the world for a week or more . |
| 6 | Although John Wright had been due to send Hanns a letter about the technical requirements , it was actually the choreographer who wrote again in late September , suggesting simplification to avoid distracting the eye and adding ‘ You must design several feet around the back cloth , otherwise what you have designed will be cut off by the back legs and flies ’ . |
| 7 | The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies . |
| 8 | Some boys are cut off by the tide ! " |
| 9 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
| 10 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 11 | So the unemployed , living on social security , usually on big council estates , are cut off from the rest of society . |
| 12 | However , these regions are cut off from the rest of the brain ( hence , roughly speaking , disconnecting speech from thought ) . |
| 13 | Only 130 of the original population of 1,000 Arara Indians survive , according to Fiona Watson of Survival International , and 40 of these , contacted for the first time in 1988 , are cut off from the main community by the Bannach road . |
| 14 | During talks on Feb. 2 the two sides agreed to resume border trade which had been cut off since the 1962 Sino-Indian War . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I am cut off at the waist for ever . |
| 19 | Despite their efforts several villages , including Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 20 | Despite the county council efforts , several towns and villages , including Tow Law , Alston , Langdon Beck in Teesdale and St John 's Chapel in Weardale , were cut off by the blizzards . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 23 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 24 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Three 12year-olds were rescued by the Tynemouth inshore lifeboat after being cut off by the tide just south of the Marsden Grotto at South Shields . |
| 27 | The telephone system bequeathed by the socialist regime is another dampener : being cut off from the outside world is bad for business . |
| 28 | What bothers her the most is the feeling of being cut off from the outside world . |
| 29 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 30 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |