Example sentences of "[adv] off for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is only 1lb better off for about ten lengths . |
| 2 | In Darwinian terms , a sterile worker is not better off for being in a colony . |
| 3 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 4 | They include Another Coral , 8lb better off for the seven lengths he was beaten by Tipping Tim in the Mackeson , Martin Pipe 's Milford Quay , the progressive Sacre d'Or and the 1989 Champion Hurdler Beech Road . |
| 5 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 6 | Most men and women would be better off for not going to prison at all . |
| 7 | It is just a dirty city , miles and miles away and better off for that . |
| 8 | I will give you gifts so that you are better off for ever … " ) |
| 9 | The Employment Secretary has told jobless people in Gloucestershire the county is better off for work than most places … even though dole queues have doubled in the last two years . |
| 10 | I believe in freedom of speech , fucking off for Ents , I 'm sure . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm just off for my lunch , ’ said Wexford firmly . |
| 12 | I 'm just off for my my line Doctor . |
| 13 | I 'm just off for a coffee . |
| 14 | So is Adam just off for a week or is it a fortnight ? |
| 15 | No , just off for a week . |
| 16 | So that put me right off for a start . |
| 17 | They had enjoyed my Watering-Place , a collection of interlinked sketches about Tunbridge Wells , lately published ( 'We 'd been rather badly off for books ' ) , and they had tales of other writers . |
| 18 | D do you think your , your amenity-wise er the flats like they they 've got the housing , and the clubs and the playgroup and stuff like that , do you think you 're very badly off for that or ? |
| 19 | My brother-in-law shaved a bit more off for me and I like it . |
| 20 | She was in her office all Tuesday afternoon and went straight off for a couple of days on some residential course . ’ |
| 21 | It is … no defense of consigning either humans or animals to environments that ignore their biological , social , or psychological interests … to claim that these individuals do not know what they are missing and so can not be any worse off for not having it . |
| 22 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the DWA , with its very high marginal tax rates — as high as 94 per cent. , leaving disabled people with only 6p in the pound of their additional income as workers — simply substitutes a new poverty trap for the employment trap , making some disabled people actually worse off for earning more ? |
| 23 | Such problems are far off for Rugby 's Spiritualized , though their first LP is the toast of the rock press at the moment : a spacey , dreamy , bubbling mantra of introspection and buried tunes that is quite captivating . |
| 24 | Behind him the man was running out into the roadway , already too far off for a useful shot . |
| 25 | And er people was of often off for day or two , I mean really nice people , they were n't they were n't bad people , they were really nice people but they it was nature you see . |
| 26 | We 're always well off for salmon and trout because my friend Chris the Stuffer keeps us liberally supplied . |
| 27 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 28 | Fourth , central Greece , and in particular Boiotia , was not well off for harbours , but Thessaly had Pagasai , the ancestor of the modern Volos , still a port of economic importance . |
| 29 | Told her definitely off for this year . |