Sentence examples for detached- from inspiring English sources
On the strength of my husband's moderate salary we obtained a mortgage for a detached house with large garden and ran two cars.
After the Bellfield case Samuels was described as "boastful" (for allowing his chamber's website to characterise him as sought-after and highly effective), as earning "hundreds of thousands of pounds" acting for "heinous criminals", and as a resident of a "large, five-bedroom, £1.4m detached house in Prestwich".
Notwithstanding its new more detached, regulatory role (the one Grade apparently couldn't face playing) the Trust under Grade's chairmanship would broadly have been at one with a vision of the BBC that sees popularity and public purpose as good bedfellows not mortal enemies.
In his note to BBC staff he made it pretty clear that he had found it difficult, as a creative type of guy, remaining detached enough to perform effectively as chairman of the governors.
Most of them had been brought up by fearsome women of authority: nannies, matrons, distant and detached mothers, whom one did not challenge or disobey.
His mood during the challengers' debate last week was one of detached amusement, at one point shutting down Nigel Farage's argument with a single word and a wink to the audience.
To woo back defectors to Ukip Cameron has also promised to renegotiate Britain's already semi-detached relationship with the EU and put the result to an in/out referendum in 2017.
Dotted between the coconut palms are 38 rooms and suites in semi-detached cottages and two-storey units.
"We are talking about ordinary terrace or semi-detached houses in quiet streets, specifically bought or rented for the sole purpose of growing cannabis.
Other news organisations, by treating Al-Jazeera in a semi-detached fashion, had not helped: at the start of the war the BBC had described it as a "pro-Taliban broadcaster", McCullagh said.
When Nick and Linda Hancock moved into a semi-detached house in a prosperous part of Cardiff in May 2011, they noticed something that was, at the time, unusual: the nextdoor neighbours had CCTV cameras installed.
