Example sentences of "off and that " in BNC.

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1 When you find that your head has n't actually been bitten off and that you can actually speak , join one of the local societies whose activities are bound to be plastered all over your library 's noticeboard .
2 However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric !
3 It is true that demand for coarser gauges of knitwear has fallen off and that the export market has been infiltrated by products from countries with lower wage rates .
4 He took them all off and that made Constanza laugh at once , but she did n't have much time for him , she was in love with someone else and he had enlisted .
5 Given that individuals undertake exchange voluntarily , it is presumed that they must thereby be no worse off and that at least one party to the exchange is better off as a result .
6 A woman who worked in Burtons said the roof on the shop had been blown off and that a next-door restaurant and bakery had also been completely wrecked .
7 It added that 20 per cent of the workforce in state-owned enterprises had been laid off and that some factories were closed down .
8 The Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , declared that the programme of austerity and fiscal conservatism of the previous government had paid off and that the Netherlands economy had become " healthier … and has emerged from the serious slump of the late 1970s and early 1980s " .
9 He had lost his confidence and was standing off and that made things so much easier for me on that occasion . ’
10 Erm that had er most economic histor historians agree that between nineteen fifty two , nineteen fifty fifty two there was a healthy recovery and then a slackening off and that erm another consequence of land reform was to decrease the output marketed by peasants and this was because , as we mentioned earlier , the peasants have a high propensity to consume and lower marketing land was rich peasants erm and that one says that there was a new air reported then in the countryside unleashing unprecedented wave of productive enthusiasm , initiative and creativeness but there was also evidence of instability and uncertainty which hindered erm the advance of erm productiv improving productivity and investment .
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