Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An area of cleared moor was cordoned off with a wind-powered electric fence to allow heather regrowth , a method which could be repeated elsewhere ; next year 's plans for the estate , five miles north of Pateley Bridge , include protecting and encouraging the spread of bilberry , the indigenous upland plant which disappeared from large tracts of moor when bracken moved in . |
| 2 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 3 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 4 | The turbine is sealed off behind a tasteful stained wood casing with leaded windows lit from behind . |
| 5 | As the temperature rises the mercury is driven off as a toxic white gas . |
| 6 | Mourning over , the package is rounded off by a stunning double flourish ; a cod-Broadway instrumental reprise on ‘ Argentina ’ , followed by that speech in full , and it 's the most serene , quietly-spoken rant you 'll ever hear . |
| 7 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 8 | A lower setting gives slight orbital movement for harder materials , while the third setting allows the orbital action to be switched off for a straight reciprocating movement for filing or rasping , or fine cutting in hard materials . |
| 9 | This was why , for the greater part of her education , she had been sent off to a small private boarding-school , where Harriet liked to feel that the company of contemporaries compensated for all that was lacking in her home environment . |
| 10 | Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser . |
| 11 | The trailer brakes could be held off by a separate braking system when coupled to the tractor . |