Example sentences of "[is] [verb] off [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investment in Penguin 's 12 merchandisers is not high , he says , and is paying off in increased business . |
| 2 | The orchestra is certainly very accomplished and is shown off to good advantage in quite a big bold and well-detailed recording made at St John 's , Smith Square . |
| 3 | All this is set off in grandiose fashion by the wide pearl binding . |
| 4 | Not only for the quality of its own World of Guinness display , which is rounded off with traditional sampling of the renowned product in the bar , but also for the sheer beauty , and the quality of light and space of the exhibition galleries . |
| 5 | It is also undesirable because , if the glider is bounced off by bumpy ground , it will fly back into the ground heavily a few moments later . |
| 6 | A RED DEVIL MARK Hughes is sent off by Danish referee Jan Dangaard for a second bookable offence long before Manchester United 's mission to Moscow ends in bitter defeat . |
| 7 | In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost . |