Example sentences of "[noun sg] kill off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GRAHAM NEARN , MANAGING DIRECTOR , CATERHAM CARS LTD Life in the Lotus position General Motors ' decision to kill off the Lotus Elan shocked many British car enthusiasts . |
| 2 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 3 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 4 | What happens is that the drug kills off a lot of the resident Candida , the yeast cells burst open , and some of the cell contents are absorbed into the bloodstream , producing an exaggerated version of the usual symptoms . |
| 5 | And , though the story kills off the painter , the big draw himself is sure to return larger than life . |
| 6 | But two goals in two minutes midway through the half killed off the Dragons . |
| 7 | Carson was unlucky all round , as his regular ride Lochsong killed off the Ayr Gold Cup opposition under apprentice Francis Arrowsmith . |
| 8 | Dame Margaret Cole , for instance , suggested that the General Strike killed off the ‘ romantic vision of workers ' control ’ . |
| 9 | IT WAS THE YEAR Lotus killed off the new Elan and the year the MGB and Morris Oxford made a comeback . |
| 10 | After a quarter of a century , the old village is much the same … but for some the development killed off a way of life . |
| 11 | An autumn frost kills off the leaves , preventing any chance of further ripening . |
| 12 | Disuse is the natural way to kill off an old behaviour pattern . |
| 13 | As with blood , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells , so that when cells are lost from the surface there are no new cells to replace them . |
| 14 | Again , just as it does in the skin , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells and this soon has dire effects on the surface of the gut , giving rise to one of the major causes of radiation sickness . |