Example sentences of "cut [adv prt] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's totally cut off from other adults during the day , and when her husband comes home in the evening , all he wants is telly and early bed … . ’ |
| 2 | Losing Out has argued that , since 1979 , a minority of the population has been progressively cut off from other people on low income , let alone those on average or high incomes . |
| 3 | And then when he died and she followed him so soon , you see , I was at once cut off from all example of domestic life between the sexes . |
| 4 | The western sectors of Berlin ( entirely surrounded by the Soviet core ) were cut off from all access by land to the West , as the Soviets tried to force concessions from the Western powers on the future shape of Germany . |
| 5 | But now , fallen from her cabin , she was cut off from all understanding , and had no strength to kick against the darkness that had come down around her . |
| 6 | Now that Aurelia Road depôt was cut off from live tram track , it was cleared of the cars being scrapped there and closed on 22 November . |
| 7 | Racial , linguistic and cultural homogeneity in a nation virtually cut off from outside contacts , and the growth of national economic and political integration , in part counteracted the authorities ’ attempts to perpetuate rigid status divisions . |
| 8 | In winter , these routes may become impassable , and so the village , like the island itself , may be cut off from outside communications . |
| 9 | Japanese nationals were cut off from personal contacts with Europeans and the import of foreign artefacts , books and anything which might convey Western knowledge was banned . |
| 10 | Not , he wrote ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , that here in London one is cut off from such supplies in the normal course of events , but that work can not begin until one knows one will not have to bother with such things , for a while at least . |
| 11 | The populations that live on these sky islands are cut off from each other , and evolve independently . |
| 12 | " Thus before 1859 Gladstone was cut off from wide popularity among the Parliamentary class by stiffness and political isolation … " |
| 13 | I 'm cut off from any means of communication with home base . |
| 14 | For instance the strength of the priming effect suggests that covert recognition reflects the otherwise intact operation of the normal face recognition system when it is cut off from some centre of consciousness ( Young and De Haan , 1988 ) rather than the operation of a separate , subsidiary face recognition system . |
| 15 | A ministerial statement made in Parliament is an equally authoritative source of such information : why should the courts be cut off from this source of information as to the mischief aimed at ? |
| 16 | Mrs Singh had now effectively become cut off from her children 's education just as Balbinder had been cut off from local peer group relationships . |
| 17 | It stands in a field completely cut off from human habitation . |
| 18 | Of the gentry , only the Catholics who were cut off from public office and subjected to heavy fines retreated entirely into their localities and found difficulty in profiting as much as the others , yet their authority as squires remained largely untouched . |
| 19 | Each word was cut out from different magazines and newsprint , and pasted to a square piece of card . |
| 20 | On the village green stood black life-size silhouette figures of fiddle and accordion players , apparently cut out from thin sheets of iron . |
| 21 | Mr Evans said that capital spending had been cut back from original plans to offset the squeeze on profitability . |