Example sentences of "[vb -s] off as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 6 | 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 . |