Example sentences of "off when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think that both the country people and the tourists share to some extent the illusion that the locals dematerialise when the visitors have gone , that all the countryside is a vast TV set to be switched off when no one is watching , ’ said Beuno . |
| 2 | Four years later , his head was smashed and his ear partly ripped off when a horse ducked under the starting stalls . |
| 3 | Maybe it 's not activated — by which I mean ready to go off when a vessel passes over it — until the ticking stops . |
| 4 | Parental leave — which would allow either parent to take time off when a child is born — has been blocked by Britain for several years . |
| 5 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 6 | Some of this pollen is inevitably brushed off when a bee visits another flower , but bearing in mind that only a few grains are needed to bring about cross-fertilisation , and that a bee on a single journey may collect two million , it is clear that the price a plant pays for this transport is a very high one . |
| 7 | They are about to turn it off when a horrifying image swims into focus : an execution squad of Daleks is about to leave Skaro in a time-machine . |
| 8 | Residents and shoppers in Girvan were recently confronted with a very smelly problem , as hundreds of fish were left to rot in freezers that had been switched off when a shop closed down and the previous owners omitted to tell the managing agent . |
| 9 | He also ignored the fact that the majority of other European Community members do not give a compensatory day off when a national holiday falls at a weekend , as is normal practice in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Recently Kelly explained how her parents carry a special bleeper which would go off when a suitable transplant donor was found . |
| 11 | Six and a half thousand homes had their power supplies cut off when a fire broke out at an electricity sub-station . |
| 12 | Her attacker ran off when a passing motorist stopped . |
| 13 | A railway spokesman , Gautam Banerjee , said the bomb went off when a police patrol stopped the man and wanted to search his bag . |
| 14 | It was the bloodiest day in two and a half years of Arab protest against Israeli protest against Israeli rule , triggered off when a twenty one year old Israeli machine-gunned seven Arabs to death on a sandy road embankment outside Tel Aviv . |
| 15 | ‘ This new scheme will ensure that , where local authorities spend at a sensible level , no ratepayer or ratepaying couple anywhere in the country will be more than £3 a week worse off when the community charge is introduced , ’ he said . |
| 16 | And he ran off when the phone rang . |
| 17 | This is an interesting mountain , previously a Munro , but had its stripes ripped off when the tables were cruelly revised with more accurate measurements . |
| 18 | Noreen bowed her head blushing in shame and was about to walk off when the song was taken up by a voice in the wings and out stepped Maria in her best dress to finish the song , ‘ To reflect back her blushes or give sigh for sigh ’ . |
| 19 | If we had superhuman reactions then perhaps we could manage with a rigid pole , for we would then be fast enough to ease off when the fish made a sudden plunge . |
| 20 | You could compensate for a too-stiff rod and poor reflexes — reflexes which you need for easing off when the hook bites into a lip — by using a stronger line . |
| 21 | Such practices include cultivating on steep slopes so the topsoil runs off when the rains come , or ploughing downhill with the same end result . |
| 22 | If they do take the hint and hang off the lid , take care that they are not knocked off when the nettles are being replenished for caterpillars that are still feeding . |
| 23 | It was occasionally found in practice that the timer would re-trigger when the light tubes were switched off when the timer timed-out , presumably caused by a switch-off ‘ spike ’ on the supply . |
| 24 | This probably means that Earth may initially have been hotter than some scientists suggest , since even these heavy noble gases were driven off when the hot gaseous molecules reached high escape velocities . |
| 25 | Hooking up the Boss FV 300L pedal to this socket inserts into the effects chain after the compressor , distortion and noise suppressor but before the delay , chorus reverb and master ; this allows the reverb and delay to decay naturally , instead of being suddenly cut off when the patch or volume level changes . |
| 26 | The whole three-hour operation was painless but tedious , and I dozed off when the thin white line had progressed as far as my X-rayed knees on the screen in front of me . |
| 27 | It was switched off when the subject changed to pain control , which seemed to irritate most of the women present . |
| 28 | Hands up all those who turned off when the final whistle went at Parkhead . |
| 29 | He came near with ICI and Ranks Hovis McDougall but backed off when the stakes got too high . |
| 30 | The pedestrian only slipped off when the motorist turned sharply into a side street , flinging him to the ground . |