Example sentences of "be [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 2 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 3 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |
| 4 | Also an early drizzly start to the day to the north of the county that seems to be easing off as well . |
| 5 | You 'll be hanging off with that |
| 6 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 7 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 8 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you think we ought to be toddling off ? |
| 10 | The forecast thunderous cloud seemed to be keeping off . |
| 11 | ‘ Better hurry , or they 'll soon be knocking off for lunch . ’ |
| 12 | But two weeks after plumbing an Eradicator into a further pond , Ray noticed that profuse growths of blanketweed on the walls appeared to be dying off . |
| 13 | So , Ill be signing off now in a CRAPPY SHEFF UTD sort of way . |
| 14 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 15 | I 'll be pushing off to bed I think , ’ he said , glancing at the clock and his watch . |
| 16 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 17 | otherwise er I 'm gon na be skiving off . |
| 18 | I thought the tide must have turned , so I was probably proceeding in a series of zigzags a little way upstream , and it was no use looking ahead for Joanna , for she 'd be lying off our quarter . |
| 19 | And the self same people who shake their heads and utter these remarks are the ones who will be heading off to the Med or Florida on their holidays next year , doubtless piloted there by someone up front who began his or her career on a little grass strip flying those little aeroplanes that look so flimsy . |
| 20 | WELLINGTON College teacher Kenneth Orr will be heading off down under on the trip of a lifetime next month . |
| 21 | And now the Newtownards man will be heading off for an all expenses paid weekend at the four star Castle Troy Hotel in Limerick , courtesy of competition organisers Co-Operation North . |
| 22 | And while the crooks were fighting each other , they would n't be rushing off to throw ships up after us , to lock onto us before we reached Firstlight . |
| 23 | If she ever saw her , she thought worriedly ; she always seemed to be rushing off somewhere — and then she jumped when someone tapped on the door . |
| 24 | Nick has established a system of working out there which seems to be paying off . |
| 25 | And never borrow money from a moneylender ( or specialist finance or credit company , as they are usually called ) who charges interest way above the odds , otherwise you will be paying off the debt over two years rather than fourteen months . |
| 26 | At the moment , that gamble seems to be paying off . |
| 27 | The 25 year term is fixed — there is no chance that you will still be paying off your loan into your retirement , as is the possibility with a repayment type loan . |
| 28 | At first these efforts appeared to be paying off . |
| 29 | That policy appears to be paying off in as much the national survey run at the beginning of last year showed some seventy two percent of businesses were still there after eighteen months . |
| 30 | The police say a special operation against crime seems to be paying off . |