Example sentences of "off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 32 | The men began to wonder if the people whom they had laughed off as superstitious niggers were n't right after all . |
| 33 | Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations . |
| 34 | A series of studies , due to be completed in June , will decide which operations will be spun off as Independent Business Centres — to be up and running by January 1 1994 . |
| 35 | A series of studies , due to be completed in June will decide which operations will be spun off as Independent Business Centres — to be up and running by January 1 1994 . |
| 36 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 37 | Enfolded in the crisp embrace of new money , they were pointed and hard , like the nose cones of rockets about to blast off for planetary exploration , the nurturing of new worlds . |
| 38 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 39 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 40 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |
| 41 | She took herself off for long walks to ponder in the ice and wind and snow . |
| 42 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |
| 43 | It 's a good idea , but why block it off for certain limited hours ? |
| 44 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 45 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 46 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 47 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 48 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 49 | That set the fur flying and even United coach Geoff Konopka was also sent off for serious misconduct . |
| 50 | Occasionally they were cut off for other reasons . |
| 51 | During the late sixties and early seventies the mining companies brought shortlived booms to the areas in which they were operating , before heading off for other prospects , leaving their wastes and miners behind them . |
| 52 | But before long , the company found itself in the midst of the early 1980s ' recession , an event that , by Mr Garner 's own admission , nearly finished TI off for good . |
| 53 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 54 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 55 | It was partly for shame after all the talk and the things that the papers said , but as well as that they wanted to cut him off for good . ’ |
| 56 | But the school of Tolkien was still notable in creating a large , sudden surface ripple in intellectual life : a surprising return to a sense of the supernatural and the transcendent that modern technology and modern philosophy , between them , were supposed to have finished off for good . |
| 57 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 58 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 59 | I would like the Bill to contain a first offence penalty of a six-month custodial sentence — with no remission and no time off for good behaviour — in a properly funded and managed institution . |
| 60 | With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) . |