Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green Realignment 's independent existence got off to an uncertain start when one of the six members of its steering group , Lou Betts , announced that he had decided to rejoin the Green Party . |
| 2 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
| 3 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 4 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | While Durham Cricket Club got off to a resounding start , Sunderland brought a respectable gap between themselves and Division Three and Middlesbrough remained in contention for an automatic promotion spot , Newcastle moved into the bottom three of Division Two in remarkable circumstances . |
| 7 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
| 8 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 9 | Then the rider relaxed his legs , the horse moved off into a working trot , the rider rising so much at one with the animal that he in his turn appeared to be performing a piaffe . |
| 10 | How can the Minister justify the attempt to sell off into the private sector , just a matter of weeks before a general election , what most Londoners rightly regard as the proper seat of London 's government ? |
| 11 | THE 1993 Historic Scotland Events Programme gets off to a dramatic start on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May , with a major battle re-enactment by the Sealed Knot at Linlithgow Palace and Peel . |
| 12 | CLEVELAND athletes of the future get off to a flying start today with a new course at Cleveland stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | The groundswell in ‘ Chopin ’ is more urgent than usual , more truly agitato , the final march takes off at a cracking pace , and earlier Cortot , in common with Rachmaninov , includes ‘ Sphinxes ’ , a witty addition and an amusingly dour presence among the clowns and dreamers of Schumann 's masked ball . |
| 14 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |
| 15 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 16 | When the dip of the beds is fairly steep towards the sea , there is a tendency for blocks of rock to break off at the joint planes , usually at right angles to the bedding , so that the cliff profile tends to be dominated by the dip of the beds . |
| 17 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 18 | At least London 's Notting Hill Carnival got off to a trouble-free start . |
| 19 | Yale University 's $1.5 billion capital campaign got off to a spectacular start when philanthropist Paul Mellon donated gifts valued at more than $50 million . |
| 20 | The Committee got off to a brisk start at its first meeting . |
| 21 | The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) . |
| 22 | The visual inspiration for the book was the famous advert for Start-rite shoes , showing a small boy and girl walking off down a tree-lined avenue — an innocent image if ever there was one . |
| 23 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 26 | British open champion Bob Blight had a demanding weekend 's racing , as he was also racing in the 125 P and R. However his determination paid off with a third overall . |
| 27 | Flor gets off to an impressive start ; the terraced dynamics and tempi of the opening section are brooding and solid , with deep , ruminative phrasing from the Concertgebouw basses . |
| 28 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 29 | She was referred to the town 's main fire station where he met sub-officer John Yoxall and had the bracket cut off with a small hacksaw . |
| 30 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |