Example sentences of "off [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Trinidad terms ’ , proposed in 1990 by John Major when he was Britain 's chancellor , write off two-thirds of a poor country 's debt incurred before a certain date , and reschedule the rest over 25 years . |
| 2 | ( Major had told the Commonwealth heads of government conference in Harare in October 1991 that the UK was prepared unilaterally to implement these terms , which envisaged writing off two-thirds of the export credits owed by the world 's poorest countries — see p. 38552 . ) |
| 3 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 4 | But for those with loans over £30,000 where there is no tax relief , it is certainly worth considering paying off some of the mortgage - particularly since there is no clear indication of when rates might come down . |
| 5 | Frequent Bolovian references ( drawings , some rhymes , and much Bolovian dogma ) show that in the period 1927–30 Eliot found this a valuable way of letting off some of the emotional steam generated by his conversion ; serious discussions of theology are juxtaposed in this correspondence with ridiculous accounts of Bolovian religious practice , one letter dated according to the day of St Cecilia , another according to that of St Gumbolumbo . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll go out to the fields for a few hours to try to work off some of this . ’ |
| 7 | The virtuous and those plagued by dogs ( not mutually exclusive groups ) can always walk off some of the effects of a pudding afterwards . |
| 8 | Mr Goria plans to liquidate Federconsorzi 's assets in order to pay off some of the group 's debt ( although he is unlikely to force the group into formal bankruptcy ) . |
| 9 | Philip took the vase and put it on the table where it had been before , wiping off some of the dust with his elbow . |
| 10 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 11 | When the going gets tougher the management can simply sell off some of the property of its partly-owned Oldham Estate subsidiary . |
| 12 | CAIRNS for Franklyn Stephenson , who should work off some of his frustration to Sussex 's considerable advantage , will not be an immediate gain . |
| 13 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 14 | However , the model is consistent with experiments in which we blocked proliferation in the progress zone or killed off some of the cells . |
| 15 | Recently a major new canal has been made to cut off some of the tributary rivers . |
| 16 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 17 | Teddy organised small-group backings that creamed off some of the best New York musicians of the day — men such as Lester Young , Buck Clayton and Ben Webster — from the resident big bands . |
| 18 | Poachers could have been there before you and creamed off some of the rabbits , or there may have been a more innocent intrusion by a courting couple on the site . |
| 19 | Governments begin to slough off some of the wealth in taxes to ameliorate the conditions of the poor and provide public amenities for their citizens . |
| 20 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 21 | ‘ Now if you 'll promise to pay off some of the arrears you can build your shed . |
| 22 | He had to buy off some of Wednesday night 's rebels by promising them that the Maastricht Treaty would not come before the Commons again until after Denmark held another referendum in May . |
| 23 | After all , I might trigger off some of those well-repressed feelings in her and what would she do with them ? |
| 24 | WHEN the Government accepted the Monopolies Commission recommendation that the big brewers should sell off some of their pubs , many publicans hoped they would be able to become independent landlords . |
| 25 | In the warehouses there were still some bales of fine leather and if sold to an honest dealer , they would bring in enough at least to pay off some of her father 's debts . |
| 26 | Almost immediately , she had written ta her father 's supplier in London and made an offer to pay off some of the debt he owed . |
| 27 | These include moving all the pictures to the National Gallery ; storing the pictures in situ in a permanently closed Gallery ; selling off some of the pictures ( one such sale in 1971 caused public outcry ) ; and launching another major public appeal as in 1984–85 and 1988 ( unlikely to succeed again ) . |
| 28 | At Phaistos , there is evidence that doors closed off some of the openings . |
| 29 | It might be better to seal off some of the most polluted land — like America 's vast military estates — from the public and leave it as new wildernesses . |
| 30 | To pick off some of the wandering DEC herd , Hewlett-Packard has signed a joint marketing pact that will put Raxco Inc 's VAX/VMS data centre management products on HP 9000 Series 800 and Series 700 machines : the Rockville , Maryland company has its Security Assessment software immediately available for HP 's 9000s . |