Example sentences of "off from the main [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart . |
| 2 | It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle . |
| 3 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 4 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 5 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 6 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 9 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |