Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It brings you first to the Lac d'Orédon , which is a genial , pine girt spot , and from which another , rather more dubious road leads off to the left up to the dam of Cap-de-Long . |
3 | Just why is unclear but follow it and , four miles before Gubbio , a road branches off to the beautiful region of Monte Maggiore . |
4 | There are signs of civilisation along here , with a scattering of crofts and farmsteads , and a narrow road branches off to the isolated community of Badluarach , a lonely outpost at the entrance to Little Loch Broom . |
5 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
6 | NEXT Thursday ( 21 February ) , an Ariane rocket lifts off from the European Space Centre in French Guiana to put the second Astra satellite into orbit at 19° East . |