Example sentences of "[be] [verb] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night . |
| 2 | That proposal has a number of different themes to it ; briefly , Channel Four would be floated off from the IBA and would then be franchised as any other ITV company . |
| 3 | The request serial number should also be checked off against the records in the control book , and logged as completed . |
| 4 | He was n't going to be fobbed off by the issue of her drink either , she found . |
| 5 | As a conscious exercise in boosting public morale at a difficult time there was a real danger of over-indulgence in wishful thinking ; it would be a cruel delusion to anticipate too many rabbits out of the hat , only to be fobbed off by the patter of the conjurer . |
| 6 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 7 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 8 | That area should now be hived off along the line delineated in Map B. |
| 9 | The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false . |
| 10 | Costs which do not qualify as issue costs should be written off to the profit and loss account as incurred . |
| 11 | The SORP requires that advances should be written off to the extent that it appears there is no realistic prospect of recovery . |
| 12 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 13 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 14 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 15 | The generation of surplus ACT has a detrimental effect on the company 's reported earnings , since it must usually be written off in the accounts . |
| 16 | The expenditure concerned therefore will be written off in the year in which it is incurred . |
| 17 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 18 | The tin oxide , being relatively heavy , travels only a short distance when carried by a stream of water and can be channelled off from the waste . |
| 19 | The instructions warn that if the stove burns with a high yellow flame it should be turned off at the fuel valve and allowed to cool . |
| 20 | They could then be sold off to the tune of a hundred million pounds to pay off debts . |
| 21 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 22 | The latest TOPS report and accounts list the participating employers as all those who are to be sold off under the Bill . |
| 23 | The Aldergrove operation — with a turnover last year of £21m — is to be sold off by the end of next year in a major privatisation project . |
| 24 | A Forestry Commission spokesman denied charges of a secret arrangement , but acknowledged that the Ordnance Survey had " clearly felt that it would be misleading to their customers to publish maps indicating Commission land when they are aware that one tenth of this land has to be sold off by the end of the century " . |
| 25 | Moreover , Keeble argued ( see section 2.4 ) that the shifts in the 1970s were due precisely to the counter-processes which can be sparked off by the concentration of development in a particular area . |
| 26 | the fastest time down the hill at Eastnor for those that managed to stay on was about one minute. , .16 seconds … the top 16 will be racing off for the champions crown but win or lose … fast or slow … they all seem to enjoy themselves … so what 's the fun of it … |
| 27 | the fastest time down the hill at Eastnor for those that managed to stay on was about one minute. , .16 seconds … the top 16 will be racing off for the champions crown but win or lose … fast or slow … they all seem to enjoy themselves … so what 's the fun of it … |
| 28 | Even so , such crowds gathered that in parts of Lower Bavaria and the upper Palatinate halls reserved for the ceremonies were overfilled and had to be closed off by the police . |
| 29 | " Everybody seems to be going off to the wedding-breakfast . |
| 30 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |