Example sentences of "off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , people want to dim lights or to switch them on and off during long holidays . |
| 2 | Those who use the motorway regularly like lorry drivers tend to stop off during foggy periods . |
| 3 | They cut him off during televised debates . |
| 4 | Roman had clearly primed his housekeeper well in advance , Caroline reflected , finding herself whisked off through grandiose high-ceilinged passageways , up a curving staircase wide enough to accommodate a coach and four , and into a room large enough to hold a full-scale ball . |
| 5 | The killer made off through rush-hour traffic on a bicycle , later found abandoned a short distance down the road . |
| 6 | They were expected to think to themselves as they rose before dawn to struggle off through bitter winter colds to join a pre-shift milk or bread queue : things may not be perfect but at least Ceauşescu has put Romania on the map ! |
| 7 | In order that the firm can communicate directly with any other parties it may be appropriate to include an authority to this effect in the letter ; it is also sensible to include a comment to the effect that there is always an element of trade off between absolute confidentiality and achieving the desired result . |
| 8 | This is a confidential document and considerable care is taken to ensure that it can not be related back to the company in question , although there is always an element of trade off between absolute confidentiality and achieving the desired results . |
| 9 | something to be dropped on from a great height as frequently as possible er particularly if it 's the G L C. In the United States , however much the federal government is irritated by the state government , it can not attack its constitutional powers nor can it undermine its financial base so that 's a different relationship , it 's a relationship based , not on dominance , but on partnership and there has to be an understanding , a trade off between federal and er a and state government . |
| 10 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |
| 11 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |
| 12 | Drive cable connectors can be cleaned by easing the connector off about halfway and then pushing it back on . |
| 13 | They can tip you off about possible snags , — and about the shortcuts as well . |
| 14 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not certain , but there 's a suggestion that they have stolen British army trucks and uniforms and , with forged documents , pass themselves off as official convoys . |
| 16 | Some of our more charming wayside stations have been sold off as private houses . |
| 17 | For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could , at a future date , be simply floated off as private bodies . |
| 18 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 19 | Collected elsewhere , these might have been written off as terrestrial contamination . |
| 20 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 21 | Most reports of his single handed massacre of the Aussies sheepishly admitted he had been ‘ written off as major force ’ consigned to a bit part on cricket 's international stage . |
| 22 | The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change . |
| 23 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 24 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 25 | CLIVE ALLEN scored twice , but Trevor Morley was sent off as European football last night returned to Upton Park for the first time in 11 years . |
| 26 | The pioneers of the NHS accepted that it would initially be necessary to increase the resources devoted to the service , but that this would level off as medical needs were satisfied . |
| 27 | In the film Hospital George C. Scott plays the administrator attempting to impose some order on the chaos of misadventure , accidents , and disasters passing themselves off as medical care . |
| 28 | Will the artificial and shallow-minded of the world ever recognise the beauty of natural values and not shrug it off as sky-high idealism ? |
| 29 | Line managers have discretion to give people time off as special leave . |
| 30 | They are parasitic on fish , feeding on the blood for three months before dropping off as miniature mussels . |