Example sentences of "[noun sg] off [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unraced Rockawhile , Henry Cecil 's first runner of the 1992 Flat season , can get the Newmarket trainer off to a flying start in the Bluebell Fillies ' Stakes ( 4.30 ) . |
| 2 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 3 | I might add , very briefly , I mean this is a spin off of the traditional aircraft situation , where they 're being used |
| 4 | Although Dragon is only about half the size of Drayton Asia , its superior investment performance has got the bid off to a good start . |
| 5 | ‘ If he blows his mouth off before the Wee GP , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm for castration . |
| 6 | At this year 's Reading Festival , Smashing Pumpkins came in slightly below par , perhaps due to the rigours of touring , but , a few nights before , in the more intimate setting of Newcastle 's Riverside , they clean blew the roof off with an energetic gig that showed that some members had an appreciation of heavy metal but knew how to drag it breathing heavily into the '90s . |
| 7 | The easiest cure is to knock the snow off with a regular tap with the axe shaft . |
| 8 | Entering the room in a confident and relaxed manner is very important for getting the interview off to a good start . |
| 9 | The Bush Administration sent the whole issue off to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in December last year . |
| 10 | IRELAND 'S defending featherweight champion , Paul Griffin , got his European championship campaign off to a winning start in Bursa , Turkey last night with a hard fought 6–5 win over Lazlo Bagnar of Hungry . |
| 11 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 12 | The players will be keen to get their season on the East Region circuit off to a good start in the 36 hole Senate Charity Open which starts tomorrow , and the man they will all be out to beat is European Tour regular Paul Curry . |
| 13 | This , thanks to the trainers and N.D.O. , is all in the pipeline , with Taster Days and leaflets distributed to get a new training course off to a good start in Cambridge , this September . |
| 14 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 15 | Even before kick-off Rangers got the afternoon off to an unexpected start . |
| 16 | Even before kick-off Rangers got the afternoon off to an unexpected start . |
| 17 | Mr Brown got the Blackpool conference off to a storming start , brushing aside fears that it might be distracted by Euro rebel Bryan Gould 's resignation from John Smith 's top team . |
| 18 | In addition to events previously announced , there will be a Virago Birthday Breakfast to get the conference off to a positive start on the Monday , and four more workshops have been firmed up for the afternoon : ‘ Goodbye to Gutenberg ’ ( speakers Tony Feldman , Japp Buchli of Scheltma Hokema Vermuelen , Paul Ayscough of Columbia TriStar and Michael Kemp of Franklin Electronic ) ; ‘ Targeting the Book Market ’ — The Role of Research ’ ( Peter Mouncey of the AA , Sue Morris of W H Smith and Leslie Henry of BML ) ; ‘ Financial Management for Booksellers ’ ( Ian Newman , Waterstones ) ; and ‘ Take Four Walls — Shop Design on a Budget ’ ( Barry Steadham , Insight Design ) . |
| 19 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |
| 20 | Watch your timing as you play this and make sure that you cut each chord off at the correct time . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | My 100 metres win had set the team off to a great Championships . |
| 23 | The much-maligned Forest 'keeper literally let two points slip away when he handed Andy Clarke a 12th-minute equaliser after Nigel Clough had got his dad 's team off to a flying start . |
| 24 | another local team off to a flying start are Gloucester Rugby club … they 've won four out of four now … |
| 25 | BILLY Hardy got his comeback off to a winning start at the McEwans Centre , Houghton-le-Spring , last night with a five round demolition of plucky Yorkshireman Chris Clarkson . |
| 26 | MORE than 12 months after the closure of the Corporate Wardrobe and the selling off of the entire stock in a giant sale , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director Bob McInnes is still searching for a solution to the uniform issue . |
| 27 | Merrill sensed that he was trying to put her at her ease , building a bridge over the rift that divided them , to get the evening off to a good start . |
| 28 | A breakfast that leaves you feeling full gets your diet off to a great start . |
| 29 | He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move . |
| 30 | In the next attack Toman again ran at the defence and laid the ball off for the supporting Les McJannet ten yards out , but the full back was denied by a last ditch tackle . |