Example sentences of "separate [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The country has lost a fifth of its mangrove swamps , and many that used to line estuaries are now confined to narrow stretches separating hectares of dyked shrimp ponds .
2 This is the origin of a great number of ‘ green lanes ’ on the map which run for a few miles , separating parishes on either side but eventually petering out .
3 Not only does the possession of culture conventionally mark the great divide separating humans from other animals , but different human societies tend to possess distinctive cultures .
4 By privileging medicine in the administration of the new service , separating hospitals from local authority responsibilities for prevention and after care , and leaving the power and independence of the teaching hospitals intact , Bevan created a medical service not a health service .
5 Note that the vertical bars must be included as part of the syntax , as they separate parameters within each keyword .
6 Furthermore , if information is to be sent abroad , will other police forces be told that we , unlike some of them , do not separate suspicion from factual information on our computer ?
7 But one can not separate farming into tidy compartments : the demands of the market , livestock numbers , weather conditions , and many other variables force one to compromise .
8 I ca n't separate sex from old-fashioned feelings like love and affection . ’
9 He will separate men into two groups , as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats , and he will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on the left .
10 Another Alpine valley , that of the Sava Dolinka , occupies a deep trench between the Karawanken ranges which separate Slovenia from Austrian Carinthia and the majestic limestone peaks of the Julian Alps to the south .
11 However , it is probably this stage which separates interpreters from ordinary individuals .
12 These classifications are able to separate groups of nodal lymphomas with a clear correlation between morphological features and clinical behaviour .
13 Just as it is counter-productive to separate education into individual subject areas , so too is the act of considering in isolation the four areas discussed .
14 It included the need to separate officers from other ranks , and to place them in separate confinement ( the intention of this was to prevent the officers from leading their followers in opposition to the repatriations ) .
15 The sugar industry has campaigned to separate sugar from medical conditions other than tooth decay , and has suggested that natural sugars , carbohydrates and frequency of consumption are more important to cavities than sugar itself .
16 They borrowed the idea of the tea ceremony , adapting it to the tea gardens meant to separate people from everyday concerns .
17 To separate consideration of old age abuse from the range of powerful emotions , positive and negative , which are present in those who depend and those who care , and which affect all interactions , is both limiting and stigmatising .
18 High-speed centrifuges generate large inertial forces which are used to separate materials from liquid suspensions that would sediment only slowly , if at all , under gravity .
19 Dispersive instruments use prisms or gratings to separate radiation of different frequencies , by refraction or diffraction .
20 This result can be confirmed analytically using the following expressions for the three-phase static torque/rotor position characteristics : The resultant torque from two of the phases excited is simply the sum of the separate phase torques : Both graphical and analytical results indicate that the only difference between the excitation schemes is in the equilibrium positions ; with two phases excited the equilibrium position is between the positions corresponding to separate excitation of each phase .
21 A nylon brush separator is threaded down cavity to separate material from adjoining house .
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