Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] off from " in BNC.
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| 1 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |
| 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 | It has also helped write rules for community cable access and worked to ensure that the poor are not cut off from the benefits of new telephone technologies . |
| 4 | Attitudes are still read off from attributes . |
| 5 | When our unforgiveness cuts us off from our brother we are automatically cut off from God . |
| 6 | In both Milton and Virgil the first two books are clearly separated off from what follows ; Wordsworth begins a new theme with Book iii , and also observes the traditional break at the end of Book vi , the halfway point of the poem . |
| 7 | If Balbinder was bussed to Cedars every day she would be effectively cut off from any real involvement in her children 's schooling , and from an important part of her own role within the community as the mother of a young child at the local school . |
| 8 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 9 | Drawing attention to paid visits back to the home country may help to reassure the family that they will not be completely cut off from relatives and friends . |
| 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 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 12 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 13 | Its attraction for visitors is enhanced by being temporarily cut off from the mainland by the tides . |
| 14 | In previous years many overseas publishers were probably put off from coming to London by the fact that not all the major players in British publishing were represented at the fair . |
| 15 | By the nineteenth century , middle- and upper-class women were increasingly cut off from the world of production , while some working-class women regained a limited role in production outside the home . |
| 16 | I think we need to be theoretically and politically clear that no single culture is hermetically sealed off from others . |
| 17 | The longer stretch which contains the Creole part of the turn , beginning with " I did n't mind " and ending " but to dance " — disrupts this pattern and is thus set off from the rest of the turn . |
| 18 | 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 … . ’ |
| 19 | The London English sequence here is clearly set off from the rest of Brenda 's turn by its function , which is to elicit a " lost " piece of information . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When I first saw her black and white photographs using animal parts compiled into a series of hunters ' trophies , I was certainly put off from visiting this exhibition . |
| 22 | Her husband was recently laid off from his construction job and is now employed part-time as a night watchman . |