Example sentences of "off [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other staff are laid off during holidays , except that they also work reduced hours ( approximately 50 per cent of the term-time totals ) for the last two weeks of July ( usually weeks 37–38 of the academic year ) . |
| 2 | They wanted to pass it off through words — none would come . |
| 3 | Taking a day off between shows in Chapel Hill and Charlotte , North Carolina , we head towards the UMWA District 28 office ‘ just behind the Pizza Hut ’ in Castlewood , Virginia . |
| 4 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 5 | He took nine months off between jobs and dabbled in commune life , with a period at Laurieston Hall , the alternative centre on the Scottish Borders . |
| 6 | I often get tipped off about things like that . ’ |
| 7 | In Banff , he sounded off about windows . |
| 8 | and then cutting business too late , cutting them off as things are starting to flow |
| 9 | The rest would have to go off as wage-labourers to the Lowlands . |
| 10 | Entirely new ventures , especially in areas of very advanced technology like microelectronics , have frequently been pioneered by small firms spinning off as satellites from parent companies . |
| 11 | ( Copies of old rugs sometimes include the original date and signature , but there is rarely any attempt to pass them off as originals ; even if there were , other indicators of age would make such deceit obvious . ) |
| 12 | He painted in various styles and passed them off as originals making a lot of money in the process . |
| 13 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |
| 14 | It had hoped that under 100 of its 360 staff would lose their jobs , hoped that many would stay in work as employees of Kontrax 's 15 dealers , which were wholly-owned but were to have been sold off as franchises under the scheme . |
| 15 | When she was in her teens she had even felt ashamed , having to confess to people she knew that she and her mother lived all alone in it instead of letting bits of it off as flats . |
| 16 | In the 1830s they were being criticized for despoiling ‘ the crystalline beauties ’ of the local caves , or in other words bearing off as trophies the stalactites and stalagmites . |
| 17 | Sell most of the population off as slaves ? ’ she recalled with a grimace . |
| 18 | Erm , the the the suggestion was then , that the two young men and the the parable of the prodigal of son , started off as insiders , but in turn , they became outsiders in in in in some way . |
| 19 | They had sufficient education and style to carry it off as gentlemen . |
| 20 | Producers had originally started off as sound-men and moved into recording a studio product made specifically for dancing . |
| 21 | ‘ I should n't think so , ’ he said , ‘ not all of it , but I need it too and can write if off as expenses . ’ |
| 22 | But would a a erm apprentice squad Was it known , or was it common , or was it known at all , for an apprentice squad to start off as apprentices like you start off in maybe four or five years become apprentice squad and work as a squad and do light jobs that you 're talking about , would |
| 23 | Mr Hubbard , who is retired and lives at Hutton Avenue with his wife Margaret , said : ‘ We just hit it off as pals . |
| 24 | It will all end up in those grim audio-visual departments where it will eventually be auctioned off for peanuts during a cost-saving period . |
| 25 | Event organised by Time Off For Women , PO Box 9 , Ashton-Under-Lyne , Lancs OL6 8DH . |
| 26 | this killed Bristol off for goods … bad defence by them … but smart piece of work from Allen and Dyer … |
| 27 | ‘ How are we off for bed-clothes now ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Shove 'em in t'manger , ’ Jonadab directed , ‘ and then get off for thi dinner . ’ |
| 29 | McManus notes that ‘ aggression does not pay off for girls in the way some boys find it does for them ’ , with the result that many girls adapt to the social world of school in a different way . |
| 30 | ‘ If the river is contaminated with toxic waste then there is every possibility all river life would be killed off for generations . ’ |