Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [vb pp] off from " in BNC.

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1 We were once more cut off from reality in our underground prison .
2 Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice .
3 School was going to be closed early because the rain had not stopped and the school and village were nearly totally cut off from everywhere else .
4 French nationals were evacuated by French army helicopter from both towns , which were now virtually cut off from contact with the outside world .
5 The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month .
6 But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has !
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