Example sentences of "cut off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut off at the neck ! |
| 2 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 3 | Oliver was close behind as she ran towards the pedlar , then cut off to the side . |
| 4 | Somehow , with Aunt Millie 's help , it had come all right — if being turned out , forbidden to see your sisters or brother , cut off without a penny , your name never to be mentioned at the family dinner-table , could be called that … . |
| 5 | This figure includes skin divers , bathers and water skiers , people and vehicles cut off by the tide and casualties who had fallen from cliffs or man-made structures . |
| 6 | As bishop of a major city Avitus was involved in court politics to an extent that Sidonius , cut off from the centre of Visigothic power in Clermont , was not . |
| 7 | Cut off from the mass of the people by race and language , the rulers also became increasingly acquisitive in terms of land . |
| 8 | Cut off from the Reich by the Polish Corridor these people felt themselves to be German and to be threatened by the new Polish state . |
| 9 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But more importantly it is a good starting place for exploring the lesser known eastern valleys which are peaceful , quiet and cut off from the rest of the Lake District . |
| 12 | They both ate , trying not to think about being in the house together , cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 13 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |
| 14 | as if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall , cut off from the rest of the Church . |
| 15 | I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones . |
| 16 | The Jews were in exile after 586 BC and found themselves cut off from the temple . |
| 17 | At regional level , too , new sources of authority emerged ; in the coastal Basque provinces , cut off from the heartland of Republican Spain , the separate Basque Republic of Euskadi came into existence ; in Catalonia , where Companys reached an accommodation with the CNT , an anti-fascist Militia Committee ran affairs independently of Madrid ; and in October Aragon became an autonomous CNT fief administered by its own regional ‘ Council ’ . |
| 18 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 19 | Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar . |
| 20 | The area became marginalised , cut off from the hub of business activity across the river . |
| 21 | On the contrary , I think it more likely that , cut off from the source of rationality , the Godhead itself , the Devil is evil but irrational . |
| 22 | The trouble with you is , he said , that you 've grown fat in your little cocoon here in London , cut off from the realities of the world . |
| 23 | Cut off from the world for a weekend , what started out as a bit of a laugh for Gordon , Angus , Roy and Neville turns into a carnival of recrimination , backbiting , French cricket and sausages . |
| 24 | Always in a dream , cut off from the world — and forever being dreadfully wounded over the slightest thing . |
| 25 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 26 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 27 | Lee stood , stranded , cut off from the future . |
| 28 | Rome , unlike Avignon ( and , indeed , many other cities ) was inconveniently placed for easy relations with most of Europe and cut off from the north-west , where the papacy 's influence was strongest , by the great mountain range of the Alps . |
| 29 | Spain in particular , with its relatively large , shambling army ( a relic from the Franco era ) cut off behind the Pyrenees , has been under pressure from NATO to put more money into its air force and navy . |
| 30 | He had to will the rending of his divine nature from his human nature , and die a man alone — the human Jesus cut off from the Father ; the Son denied the sustaining power of the Spirit . |