Example sentences of "off by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A RED DEVIL MARK Hughes is sent off by Danish referee Jan Dangaard for a second bookable offence long before Manchester United 's mission to Moscow ends in bitter defeat . |
| 2 | As the late collector stated , the antiquities market can be treacherous going , as many collectors can be put off by unanswered questions of authenticity and provenance . |
| 3 | The law protects tenants from being ripped off by rack-rent thugs . |
| 4 | Start to level off by increasing power at a height above that required . |
| 5 | At Junction , on the Lemhi River , the Nez Perce found the settlements fortified , and were warned off by Chief Tenday of the Lemhi Shoshoni . |
| 6 | The façade is wonderfully elegant , the Baroque dressing being set off by superb windows . |
| 7 | ( You can still buy one cheap in the car park round the corner from Victoria as they 're auctioned off by young Ozzers looking for the fare home . ) |
| 8 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 9 | The following year he tried to buy Outram 's Glasgow papers but was beaten off by nationalist feeling ( Thomson being Canadian ) and the resources of the Scottish financier Lord Fraser . |
| 10 | CO is man 's main contribution to the greenhouse effect , responsible for 55 per cent of the warming ; other important gases are methane and nitrous oxide , given off by burning fossil fuels and vegetation , and chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , which also cause ozone depletion . |
| 11 | A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on . |
| 12 | At least half are believed to be switched off by remote control every night . |
| 13 | The Rushdie affair , touched off by Muslim reactions to the publication of Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses and reaching a crescendo in 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie 's assassination , revealed irreconcilable views about the duties of government in the face of blasphemy . |
| 14 | The first thing the researchers discovered was that special infrared cameras , designed to pick up the heat given off by warm-blooded animals , failed to detect polar bears — the insulation provided by their coats is too efficient . |
| 15 | 7.5 shows how the intensity should vary with frequency for gamma rays given off by primordial black holes , if there were on average 300 per cubic light-year . |
| 16 | We have tried numerous toddler catches but they are invariably pulled off by over-enthusiastic visitors who do not understand them . |
| 17 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 18 | Do n't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians . |
| 19 | Do n't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians . |
| 20 | Strikes sparked off by specific incidents such as the Lena goldfields massacre of 1912 , or short stoppages called to mark May Day , were manifestly political in motivation . |
| 21 | Adrian Newman , a director of Knottingley-based Paul Caddick , says potential tenants for the CADCAM office scheme have been put off by poor access into the development . |
| 22 | The traditional routes to the Fannichs from the Ullapool road are now in danger of being blocked off by extensive crop forestry ploughing and ‘ deer fencing ’ . |
| 23 | But as he writhed on the carpet after the sprint , he was ticked off by 28-year-old Angela for ‘ over-reacting . ’ |
| 24 | Everywhere Joan went , Richard would appear , tipped off by mutual friends in Virgin , among whom he acquired the nickname Tag — after his constant request , ‘ What are you doing tonight ? |
| 25 | It was only after several days of hard work harvesting , rounded off by celibate nights , that he discovered why Rose kept her bedroom door locked . |
| 26 | A year ago desktop publishing was being written off by professional publishers as lacking quality , control and support . |
| 27 | Strong men fainted and were carried off by weak men … |
| 28 | The total of bad debts written off by state-owned regional banks had reached almost A$3,000 million since the deregulation in 1984 of banking activities [ see p.33533 ] . |
| 29 | It is pesticide-free and traps male moths by luring them on to a sticky pad with the aid of a sex attractant ( a pheromene lure capsule ) given off by female moths to attract a mate . |
| 30 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |