Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 2 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 3 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 4 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 5 | How can the Minister justify the attempt to sell off into the private sector , just a matter of weeks before a general election , what most Londoners rightly regard as the proper seat of London 's government ? |
| 6 | The double sweep 1 : both fighters square off in the right stance . |
| 7 | Julie fell dead beneath a tree , its lower branches hacked off in the frenzied attack . |
| 8 | When the dip of the beds is fairly steep towards the sea , there is a tendency for blocks of rock to break off at the joint planes , usually at right angles to the bedding , so that the cliff profile tends to be dominated by the dip of the beds . |
| 9 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 10 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 11 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 12 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 13 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 14 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 15 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | In Rugby Union , Chinnor and Swindon , they 'll be locked in combat in the first round of the Oxfordshire Courage floodlit Cup , and that match kicks off at the southern by-pass ground at seven fifteen . |
| 17 | The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance . |
| 18 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 19 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 20 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 21 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 22 | Mike Tunnell walked off with the prized possession of a wooden spoon . |
| 23 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 24 | Club president Gordon Podmore successfully defended the sponsors trophy at Hill Valley Golf Club , Whitchurch , and the four-man team walked off with the main tournament by one Stableford point . |
| 25 | The cart trundled off through the greasy water . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm surprised you have n't had the window-frame shipped off to the Black Museum . ’ |
| 27 | The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall . |
| 28 | All the stack-pipes fell off in the Daily Express Trophy at Silverstone , but Graham won again and that race carried a lot of money . |
| 29 | The guerrillas duly launched the missile north across the bay of Beirut at Jounieh , the first stage of the projectile falling into the Mediterranean as the warhead sped off towards the sleepy Christian harbour and its unsuspecting inhabitants . |
| 30 | A vignette is an illustration without border or frame , the picture shading off into the surrounding paper . |