Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 2 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 3 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 4 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 5 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 6 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 7 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 8 | However , mass meetings organized in Vietnam to condemn " counter-revolutionaries in Poland " were called off after the Polish government formally protested at Vietnam 's " interference " in Poland 's internal affairs . |
| 9 | And seven new Peugeot cars were driven off from the Central African Motor Services : two were never found . |
| 10 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 11 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 12 | It is also possible that many advertisers were put off by the political tone . |
| 13 | The ‘ general interest ’ illustrated weekly magazines like Picture Post were killed off in the late 1950s by TV , even before the free colour magazines and expanded feature coverage of the Sunday papers , led by The Sunday Times , were introduced in the early 1960s . |
| 14 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 15 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 16 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 17 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 18 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 19 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 20 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 21 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 22 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 23 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 24 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 25 | The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital . |
| 26 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 27 | ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’ |
| 28 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 29 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 30 | One version is that the route was cut off by the rising tide ; the Welsh swooped , and drove the English into the sea . |