Example sentences of "they off against " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 2 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 3 | Bakufu control over the country was never absolute , but rested on the administration 's ability to hold in check the ambitions of various provincial lords and play them off against each other . |
| 4 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 5 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 6 | That war is still going on , Jamie is still wasting his life on a childhood hatred and Edward Swift is still playing them off against each other from beyond the grave . ’ |
| 7 | Do you have to ti , do you tick them off against your cheque book stubs ? |