Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum .
2 The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity .
3 His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates .
4 ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd .
5 Pierce finishes off with a ghostly version of the great Skip James ' ‘ Hardtime Killin' Floor Blues ’ , one last acoustic cry before the tape runs out and proof positive that the blues has never been in better hands .
6 He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year .
7 This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America .
8 The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood .
9 In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy .
10 An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being .
11 The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark .
12 Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive .
13 So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds .
14 The ideal LAN workstation starts off with a worthwhile degree of poke ( fast 386 with 4Mb of RAM ) and is upgradeable ( OverDrive socket or daughterboard , spare SIMM slots , easily uprated video ) .
15 It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form .
16 The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching .
17 The event tees off with an 18-hole game , followed in the afternoon by an 18-hole medal competition for the Campbell Dawson Trophy .
18 Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth .
19 Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace .
20 Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney .
21 Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report .
22 So if your mains goes off through an electrical storm or something
23 The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens .
24 Have you ever noticed the response when a car alarm goes off in a busy street ?
25 May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians .
26 PREMIER LEAGUE KICKS OFF WITH A BIG RIP-OFF
27 Channel 4 are showing a season of eight of his films , starting tonight with the superb Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac ( 9pm , see Today 's Highlights and the Film Guide ) , and that kicks off with an hour-long look at the man , his private life and his celluloid career .
28 February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn .
29 In Rugby Union , Chinnor and Swindon , they 'll be locked in combat in the first round of the Oxfordshire Courage floodlit Cup , and that match kicks off at the southern by-pass ground at seven fifteen .
30 The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier .
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