Example sentences of "off [art] large " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fearful of protests or violence by citizens outraged by the army 's brutal assault on Tiananmen on 4 June , armed troops cordoned off a large area of central Peking , admitting only hand-picked spectators into the square . |
| 2 | Ten black men took a sledge-hammer to the work , and knocked off a large part of his face . |
| 3 | Omnipotent in Dublin , the Republic have the players — Whelan , Houghton , Aldridge , Cascarino , Sheedy , O'Leary — to see off a large part of the opposition in Italy . |
| 4 | This was probably due either to farmers intending to hand on their asset and therefore not thinking of it as one or to younger men trying to pay off a large loan ( they also did not want to think about it ! ) . |
| 5 | Here we faced a familiar dilemma : the Department of Transport and the county council were seeking to improve a trunk road and , seeing a large area of parkland , decided to take the new road through the park , cutting off a large swathe near the main entrance gates . |
| 6 | It also has an ‘ enable tracer ’ which cuts down the time needed to run off a large number of copies from one disc . |
| 7 | He peeled off a large piece of newspaper from the top and unwrapped five small parcels , inside which lay several home-baked cakes . |
| 8 | Sergeant Cork made more than sure it would not enter the battle : setting off a large demolition charge , he was killed in the blast . |
| 9 | The girls grin did not alter at all as she drew her right hand from her sleeve , holding a large , ancient , projectile-firing pistol , and blew off a large bit of the creature 's head . |
| 10 | The headmaster looked as if he was fighting off a large insect that was homing in on his neck . |