Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 2 | On a modern system this may have been replaced by a safety device called a residual current device ( RCD ) , which turns off the supply if it detects current leaking to earth , and so protects the system and its users against the twin risks of fire and electric shock . |
| 3 | In addition , a cylinder thermostat can be strapped to the cylinder either to turn the boiler off or to operate a valve which shuts off the flow from the boiler to the cylinder when the stored water is hot enough . |
| 4 | The slot flusher which closes off the gap on the underside left by the daggerboard case needs to work effectively otherwise , as well as being slowed down , you will have a fountain of water blasting into your face when you go fast . |
| 5 | St Mangen , at the end of the Goliathgasse ( which leads off the Marktplatz , near the Unterergraben ) , is another . |
| 6 | A name which trips off the tongue . |
| 7 | These bleaching creams usually contain hydroquinone , a photographic chemical which peels off the natural top layer of the skin , exposing the body to harmful radiation . |
| 8 | The International Centre , which gets off the ground officially with a ministerial blessing ( jokes aside ) at its launch next week , wo n't be booking anyone into any conferences in Nice , the Gambia or Malta . |
| 9 | The strip goes through a rolling mill and a furnace which burns off the cellulose binder , leaving a strip of metal alloy . |
| 10 | Most smoke alarms have a test button which sets off the alarm when pressed . |
| 11 | It appears that certain people have a predisposition to develop Reiter 's disease and it is possible that the organism responsible for NGU can act as a ‘ trigger ’ which sets off the inflammatory process . |
| 12 | ‘ We are working towards completing the study early next year , ’ said Ron Pattinson , ‘ which rounds off the first part of our overall survey into the Russian oil business . |
| 13 | THE British Professional road race championship which rounds off the 1993 Isle of Man International Cycling Week ( June 20–27 ) will produce a new champion . |
| 14 | Outside these dressing rooms runs a corridor — in other words a haunt of rats — at the end of which there is a water closet which gives off the most terrible stench , enough to upset the stomach of any weak person . |
| 15 | The cover over the top allows the moisture which comes off the food to stay beneath the oil and seal it . |
| 16 | When they have finished their work on one body , they activate the conveyor which carries off the completed body and pulls in another from the buffer store . |
| 17 | What happens off the pitch is the stuff of the sports pages — team rows , family rows , drink , and sex . |
| 18 | That 's what cuts off the headlights , you see . |