Example sentences of "cut off from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Panama remained physically cut off from the rest of the world yesterday , with the national airport closed and under US control , and the northern border with Costa Rica sealed . |
| 2 | Russia 's oblast of Kaliningrad , virtually cut off from the rest of the republic by the new Baltic States , is in a unique position . |
| 3 | So the unemployed , living on social security , usually on big council estates , are cut off from the rest of society . |
| 4 | Catalonia was cut off from the rest of the Republic by then and slowly being strangled to death . |
| 5 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |
| 6 | However , these regions are cut off from the rest of the brain ( hence , roughly speaking , disconnecting speech from thought ) . |
| 7 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 8 | So , for the very poor the home is primarily a means by which those largely cut off from the rest of society can shelter from further threats and attacks . |
| 9 | According to WWF team leader John McKinnon , the reserve is " like a lost world cut off from the rest of Indo-China " . |
| 10 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 11 | Its attraction for visitors is enhanced by being temporarily cut off from the mainland by the tides . |
| 12 | We are left with a verdict which sees the savage as fatally limited because cut off from God 's Word which passes understanding ; similarly , The Waste Lands fertility cults were cut off from the peace of ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ . |
| 13 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 14 | I gave her a rope , and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp . |
| 15 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 16 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 17 | But now she felt cocooned in her own private shell of misery , as cut off from the noise and activity around her as if she were frozen in ice . |
| 18 | Saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills oasis ( Figure 4.5 ) string out along a valley , formerly a marine inlet , which rose and was cut off from the sea 5000–8000 years ago when the local land ice melted ( Kerry et al . , |
| 19 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 20 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 21 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |
| 22 | The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture . |
| 23 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 24 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 25 | There were rumours that a pied-billed grebe had settled on ‘ Little Sea ’ , a freshwater lagoon cut off from the coast by the gradual build-up of sand dunes . |
| 26 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 27 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 28 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 29 | It is a district of small houses set amidst winding lanes , quite cut off from the world . |
| 30 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |