Example sentences of "off an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHRISTOPHER PHELPS kicked off an outstanding night 's music with an accurate , delicately played Mozart Symphony . |
| 2 | Halfway up I 'm bombarded by icicles falling from the overhangs above , while Graham is somewhere in the swirling mist , pulling off an impressive lead . |
| 3 | Let me assure you it 's alive and kicking , " he said , reeling off an impressive string of figures . |
| 4 | In the Soviet view it marks off an entire millennium of ‘ feudalism ’ from the capitalist phase which it inaugurated . |
| 5 | There may have been a breakdown in communication ; the taxi for day care did not call , the officer in charge was abrupt , the meal unsuitable ; these are matters not hard to put right , but unless sorted out quickly , enough to put off an elderly person perhaps reluctant to face a change of routine or the challenge of meeting new people . |
| 6 | The driver dropped off an elderly female passenger in the Holmbyre Terrace/Holmbyre Road area close to where Mr Currie lived , just after midnight on Saturday . |
| 7 | ‘ … originally the ego includes everything , later it separates off an external world from itself ’ . |
| 8 | Applix Inc is moving to get itself well distributed : this week it will announce it 's got Merisel handling Aster*x state-side and that it 's pulled off an exclusive five-year $15m deal with K K Ashisuto , Japan 's second largest software distributor . |
| 9 | It would mean cutting off an exclusive stretch of the A34 which they could use both ways . |
| 10 | After the gig , we mooch around the band 's dressing room and try to give off an inconspicuous vibe ( a hard one , since we 're the only ones that are n't stoned out of our gourds and do n't have accents that can hack their way through huge mountain ranges ) . |
| 11 | On the one hand we have the beguiling image of independent DNA replicators , skipping like chamois , free and untrammelled down the generations , temporarily brought together in throwaway survival machines , immortal coils shuffling off an endless succession of mortal ones as they forge towards their separate eternities . |
| 12 | I am arriving off an early train from Oxford or Cambridge , my mind full of Marmite and shirts . |
| 13 | Anyone who has a history of epilepsy ( even if that condition is being fully controlled by medication ) should never on any account be hypnotized , as the process of entering the appropriate altered state of mind can actually trigger off an epileptic fit . |
| 14 | " Private Eye " fell into this trap when it beat off an interim injunction from Robert Maxwell by promising to prove at trial that he had financed Neil Kinnock 's foreign travel in the hope of being awarded a peerage . |
| 15 | The fibres come off an industrial braider ; in effect , a giant knitting machine . |
| 16 | By contrast , as Collins ( 1975 ) points out , more literary styles trade off an essential ambiguity . |
| 17 | He finished in great style but was just nosed out in a three-way photo , and is improving sufficiently to shrug off an extra four pounds from the handicapper . |
| 18 | Even a skilled fighter would be unlikely to beat off an armed attacker without suffering some sort of injury . |
| 19 | Gent adopted a change of style for the fight and almost pulled off an upset , unbeaten Wharton retaining his championship by the narrowest of margins after the brutal 12-round battle was declared a draw . |
| 20 | The budget proposed selling off an estimated US$1,300 million worth of state-run enterprises ; expanding stock and bond markets ; and rationalizing the tax structure , with the reduction of the top tax rate from 62 to 52 per cent , and further projected cuts the following year . |
| 21 | Absolutely no one heard the faint tinkle as a little ventilation grille dropped off an outside wall . |
| 22 | In sum , I 'm writing off an odd paradox , criticising her for sometimes seeing herself as second best when Katell Keineg so patently is n't . |
| 23 | The visit to South Africa of several eminent Irish Rugby Football Union officers and their wives — among them the president , Ronnie Dawson — triggered off an acrimonious debate which looks likely to run on in spite of an IRFU statement regretting the safari . |
| 24 | Another factor which quickened the change in the status of the Foreign Office was the series of reforms instigated by the Treasury in 1848 which by 1852 , when the Foreign Office applied for additional staff , sparked off an acrimonious controversy between the two offices . |
| 25 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 26 | It is too soon to know if the initiative will touch off an Italian-style mop-up of Brazil 's mob . |
| 27 | I struggled off an absolute wreck . ’ |
| 28 | Better carry off an embarrassing situation with as much panache as she could muster . |
| 29 | Where the vessel is left unattended moored or anchored off an exposed beach or shore no claim will be payable for breaking adrift from the mooring or anchor and the subsequent damage . |
| 30 | Mr Corden took over as chairman in 1989 and pulled off an immediate coup by appointing Brian Little as manager . |