Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [prep] the [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 ‘ 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 .
4 He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens .
9 February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn .
10 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 .
11 Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth .
12 The pink of this species is generally verging on pale purple , and extends from the head in a wedge which tails off to the lower part of the back of the body .
13 Just why is unclear but follow it and , four miles before Gubbio , a road branches off to the beautiful region of Monte Maggiore .
14 There are signs of civilisation along here , with a scattering of crofts and farmsteads , and a narrow road branches off to the isolated community of Badluarach , a lonely outpost at the entrance to Little Loch Broom .
15 Joffe 's pious vision of man 's inhumanity to man all comes together in Pauline Collins ' clinic : it squares off against the local mafia , saves lepers etc .
16 It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors .
17 HAMLET , however , continues the movement into an about-turn and walks off in the opposite direction .
18 Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences .
19 NEXT Thursday ( 21 February ) , an Ariane rocket lifts off from the European Space Centre in French Guiana to put the second Astra satellite into orbit at 19° East .
20 That done he lets her go , and with his head over his shoulder turned , he goes out backwards without taking his yes off her … she runs off in the opposite direction .
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