Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
| 2 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 3 | this is a clean and neat move , nicely capped off with the gentle finish to the summit . |
| 4 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 6 | It 's like someone just got off at every single stop and wrote on it . |
| 7 | The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month . |
| 8 | The pain the City is now feeling is too easily brushed off as a short-term punch in the stomach from the economy . |
| 9 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 10 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 11 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 12 | Psychic healing , once written off by the medical establishment as bunkum and jiggery- pokery , is now recommended by some GPs and is becoming available on the NHS . |
| 13 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 14 | Most comical is Mick Kam , whose eyebrows , once shaved off in an unfortunate moment of artistic folly , are now growing outwards in the style of a neanderthal Denis Healey . |
| 15 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |
| 16 | for the sake of the museums otherwise they would be t probably passed off as the real thing . |
| 17 | Tassi was jailed but by then the slander of Artemesia 's name was complete : she was branded a whore , later married off to a stranger and banished from Rome . |
| 18 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 19 | Those people who went along to hear you play ‘ Heart Of Gold ’ on the ‘ Weld ’ tour got a blast of Sonic Youth , liberal idealists were shocked by your Reagan-supporting stance in the mid-'80s , your newly-won reactionary followers were soundly ticked off with the capitalist lambasting of ‘ Freedom ’ at the close of the decade … |
| 20 | ‘ It looks like a short-term reaction to a short-term situation , partially sparked off by the ridiculous reaction to the August trade figures , ’ Sir Trevor added . |
| 21 | The anterior part of the episternum is frequently marked off as a separate plate , the pre-episternum , while in many insects ( e.g. Chrysopa , Corydalis , Tipula , Tabanus ) the episternum , is divided into an upper and lower sclerite , the anepisternum and katepisternum respectively . |
| 22 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 23 | Increasingly cut off from the Eastern churches , and with Carthage eclipsed , Rome could become the unchallenged teacher and mistress of new nations ; and they were only too prepared to learn . |
| 24 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 25 | This was immediately whipped off by a waiting attendant who then passed it along a table for it to be boxed up and returned to me in the ante room . |
| 26 | Rated third in the supercomputer market with a significant 16% stake acclaimed to it , AMT 's aim to provide affordable supercomputing systems seemingly paid off to the outside world . |
| 27 | After flying on land , the group were then whisked off in an airborne plane to Robert Carrier 's restaurant in Suffolk for a sumptuous lunch . |
| 28 | East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw . |
| 29 | Today , although virtually cut off from the outside world and still subject to army harassment , the community remains determined to stay put . |
| 30 | His thoughts were abruptly cut off by a blinding flash of pain . |