Example sentences of "[noun] which [verb] off the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits .
2 Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside .
3 There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle .
4 Harry thinks that this fruit house is almost unique ; that is , he knows of one other which started off the same but has since been altered .
5 A different approach is to inhibit the hormone which starts off the female sexual cycle .
6 Gregory 's programme of radical reform depended upon the law and a renewed interest in legal study and declaration provided the impetus which sparked off the legal renaissance of the twelfth century .
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