Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] off in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 2 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |
| 3 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 4 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | The lottery will create at least 52 new millionaires each year , and possibly more if the weekly draw takes off in a big way . |
| 8 | The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall . |
| 9 | In Europe the craze for motoring took off in the twenties and thirties , helped in 1931 by the launching of the first cross-Channel ferry specifically designed to carry cars and their passengers . |
| 10 | He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax . |
| 11 | I 'M ASHAMED to be the first Scotland captain sent off in an international match . |
| 12 | One woman had her finger cut off in a slicing machine and never received any compensation . |
| 13 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 14 | As Patricia Monahan says ‘ oil-painting should be a journey of exploration and pleasure ’ , adding that ‘ the artist sets off in a particular direction but ends up somewhere else . ’ |
| 15 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 16 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 17 | Have you ever noticed the response when a car alarm goes off in a busy street ? |
| 18 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 19 | The photo at the bottom of the page shows a player teeing off in a left-to-right crosswind . |
| 20 | Said Jolosa : ‘ It is bad being the first player sent off in the new league , but I was a marked man from the start . |
| 21 | Professor Breen has suggested that the American consumer market took off in the 1740s . |
| 22 | ‘ Plancius ’ was anchored some way offshore because of shallow water and reefs , so when the first party went off in the inflatable , we could see no land at all and had to steer by compass . |