Example sentences of "[adv] off [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include Another Coral , 8lb better off for the seven lengths he was beaten by Tipping Tim in the Mackeson , Martin Pipe 's Milford Quay , the progressive Sacre d'Or and the 1989 Champion Hurdler Beech Road . |
| 2 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 3 | YOU 'RE MILES BETTER OFF WITH THE DAILY MIRROR |
| 4 | The Government 's claim that those on low incomes will be better off under the new scheme , or at least see their financial position protected , is unlikely to be borne out by events . |
| 5 | The existence in the benefit system to which they have access of a generous £10 weekly disregard on income from a top-up loan means that many students in those vulnerable groups will be better off under the new arrangements . |
| 6 | The better off within the working class have often been referred to as a labour aristocracy , though the term has been used differently by various social scientists . |
| 7 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 8 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 9 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 10 | Overall , the effect of the suspension of indexation will raise an additional £730 million in 1993/4 , although against this must be set the cost of the extension of the 20p band which will cost £370 million , leaving the Treasury £360 million better off in the coming year . |
| 11 | They will then see what the man or woman has got left in disposable income each week ; if it 's two pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two pounds , if it 's two hundred pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two hundred pounds to hit the better off in the same proportion as the people at the bottom of the income level . |
| 12 | Quickly they piled into the car , which sped noisily and dangerously off through the quotidian traffic . |
| 13 | It would then whoosh straight off to the central cashiers ' office . |
| 14 | When the miller unleashes this stallion to plunge straight off after the wild mares in the fen ( 4057 – 66 ) he unwittingly unleashes the whole course of events that will lead to the " swyvinges " in his family 's bedchamber that night . |
| 15 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 16 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 17 | The trouble is , us council owners will be worse off under the Labour council |
| 18 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 19 | This will protect those personal community charge payers who would otherwise have been more than £3 per week worse off in the first year of Community Charge . |
| 20 | Then she saw it , a white toy , coming fast up the house drive before turning sharply off behind the stable block . |
| 21 | At last , faint and far off in the total blackness which now surrounded him , he saw another gleam of light . |
| 22 | Edward Crumwallis did one of his characteristic swerves , and went abruptly off in the other direction . |