Example sentences of "off of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst problem is that the combination of silt , moss and leaves , along with a few chippings washed off of flat roof , can cause soakaways to get blocked , thereby reducing the flow at times when it 's needed most . |
| 2 | In the UK , in recent years the funding of government spending by increasing the money supply has been seen as detrimental , while funding it by borrowing has also been seen as objectionable because of the choking off of private investment . |
| 3 | Almost all of them are found in regrowth , e.g. species of Cecropia and Piper , where the chewing off of competing plants is important . |
| 4 | This was the highest-level Soviet-Israeli meeting since the breaking off of diplomatic relations in 1967 . |
| 5 | The unit will not corrode and does not have the sharp beam pattern cut off of modern halogen lights . |
| 6 | It saw the defeat of Adlai Stevenson whose demand for a suspension of tests brought an off of immediate agreement from Prime Minister Bulganin … to which Eisenhower responded by accusing the Russians of ‘ internal interference ’ in his re-election campaign . |
| 7 | The BBC 's vigorous prosecution of its commercial ends in this way is in stark contrast to such acts as the closing of The Listener , the selling off of irreplaceable books from its library and the closing of the Open University studios . |
| 8 | When added to the tapering off of Soviet oil production , the ‘ opportunity cost ’ to the USSR of energy exports to CMEA as opposed to the West has altered appreciably — all the more so once these exports became vital for financing her own grain and equipment imports from the West . |
| 9 | off of British Rail . |
| 10 | It 's where you got the er the branch chains coming off of different positions . |
| 11 | Next afternoon , then , they set off , a cheerful host , for this was the sort of venture that appealed to most , not any long campaign or set warfare but a raid , a dash into enemy territory , a showing of the flag , a swift paying off of old scores — and with the prospect of booty . |
| 12 | To compare the total realisable value of stocks with the total cost could result in an unacceptable setting off of foreseeable losses against unrealised profits . |
| 13 | At the smaller scale micro-fissures and incipient joints related to the original pattern of mineral crystallization in the rock provide lines of weakness along which exfoliation ( the spalling off of thin sheets of rock ) ( Fig. 6.20 ) and granular disintegration ( the disaggregation of individual crystals or particles ) can occur . |
| 14 | They help to unblock pores , breaking down the plug of oil and debris , penetrating into the pore to kill bacteria and reduce inflammation , and encourage flaking off of dead skin cells . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most remarkable example of self-mutilation that inflicts pain on the attacker is the breaking off of poisonous papillae by various kinds of sea slugs . |