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

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1 Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before .
2 It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened :
3 IN 1991 Barbara and her husband separated after a private detective she had hired discovered he was having an affair .
4 DOCTORS were today carefully monitoring the progress of Siamese twin boys who have been successfully separated after a 16-hour operation .
5 In a similar manner , if cells of the sponge ( the bath sponge is the skeleton laid down by the sponge ) are separated into a random mixture of individual cells they will actively move around and become reorganized into a normal sponge , with the cells in the correct relationship with one another .
6 The units are separated into the following areas :
7 At the anterior end of the embryo where the brain will form the folds are well separated with a broad area between them , but the folds run close together towards the rear end .
8 For example , ethanol can be separated from a liquid mixture of ethanol and water by shaking the mixture with silica gel .
9 In the right type of country projected profiles may illustrate the relief remarkably well : in Fig. 9.17 it is obvious that there is an area of high ground near the crest of the escarpment separated from a wide terrace on the dipslope by a noticeable break of slope .
10 The road , which was narrow , was separated from a low cliff by a stretch of rough grass .
11 Fraulein Winkelmann was sitting at one end of a small kitchen table , separated from a big colour set at the other end by a cup of coffee and a plate of cream cakes .
12 An expressed desire for rigidly determined geographical units separated from a despised neighbour occurs again and again in my fieldnotes , and is clearly illustrated in a note made in 1981 , when a superintendent in a somewhat remote subdivision laughingly told me :
13 the genders are systematically separated from an early age ;
14 A single distal oral papillae , very occasionally two as in A. filiformis and A. otteri , separated from the infradental papillae by the space or diastema .
15 One day , one of the mares cut her leg , and as it required stitching she was separated from the other horses and shut in a stable without more ado .
16 Aruba was separated from the other islands in 1986 , pending full independence in 1996 .
17 Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK .
18 This was separated from the other digits , giving their owners the ability to grasp and manipulate objects .
19 Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time .
20 That that was what was being put forward by the planning authority , then in the next sentence we have Most of the suggested sites are included in the conservation area in the village , and are separated from the built-up part of the village .
21 On that same day — 26 August — the Russian right wing , already separated from the Russian centre , came into contact with two corps of the German Eastern Group near Lautern .
22 If the variable is not separated from the prompt string by a comma , the " ? " is not printed .
23 In the balanced mode the earth/shield is separated from the negative part of the signal and the resultant output consists of three lines : Signal +ve , Signal -ve , Earth/shield .
24 This back-arc zone may of a large marginal basin separating the intra-oceanic island arc from an adjacent continent , or it may be a more complex feature containing one or more remnant arcs , separated from the volcanic arc and each other by interarc basins .
25 The western part of the island is separated from the central mass by the deep ravines between Ribeira Brava and São Vicente .
26 The wings are of flamed maple with two layers of walnut , separated from the central body section by ebony , itself edged by fine multi-coloured veneering , which can also be found under the fretboard and headstock facing .
27 Its blue and white facade is separated from the sandy beach by only 50 yards of lush public gardens .
28 It was a moment separated from the normal flow of time .
29 Whilst recognising the central role of managers in providing counselling in these circumstances , consideration should be given , in exceptional cases , to whether this form of support would be delivered more effectively if it were separated from the normal manager/employee relationship .
30 At the end of 1864 the legal system was reformed and the judiciary separated from the administrative bureaucracy , as reformers had long urged .
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