Example sentences of "[be] [verb] off in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick .
2 Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 .
3 Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence .
4 By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence .
5 They were guilty of lax marking as Scunthorpe took the lead from two crosses aimed without challenge , and weakened by Baker 's sending off in the 36th minute , a pathetic flourish of petulance .
6 Bruce Grobbelaar 's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive .
7 The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd .
8 Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road .
9 The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half .
10 Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible .
11 Julian Dicks , the West Ham captain , was sent off in the 61st minute for a late tackle on Wise and the referee , Alf Buksh , needed a police escort at the end of the tie , which West Ham won 1-0 .
12 And as Switzerland began to run riot , Gough was sent off in the 84th minute for handling the ball as Knup threatened to break through again .
13 Daniel Amokachi , of Bruges , was sent off in the 77th minute for a foul on Bremen goalkeeper Oliver Reck .
14 He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute .
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