Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 2 | The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false . |
| 3 | He was n't going to be fobbed off by the issue of her drink either , she found . |
| 4 | As a conscious exercise in boosting public morale at a difficult time there was a real danger of over-indulgence in wishful thinking ; it would be a cruel delusion to anticipate too many rabbits out of the hat , only to be fobbed off by the patter of the conjurer . |
| 5 | The fireworks were being let off on the ramparts of the castle . |
| 6 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 7 | The minor sacred sites may have been fairly informal in layout , precincts hallowed by some long past and barely remembered appearance of a deity , but not separated off from the rest of the landscape in any visible way . |
| 8 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 9 | Calling out to him , she turned to the right , making for the side of the house furthest from Switham Thicket , for she had not forgotten a previous occasion when he had dashed off into the belt of trees . |
| 10 | Its significance , in terms of the legal consequences which would follow , can be assessed , however , only by drawing a crucial distinction between the situation where the patient requests that further support be terminated , and that where the ventilator is turned off without the consent of the patient . |
| 11 | In order to stop the printer echo being turned off at the end of the CLI command file , the CLI is suspended with the " . |
| 12 | And for those who think they know nothing about building and are turned off by the sight of rotting wood , then perhaps this will help to change their attitude . |
| 13 | Too often his reputation as an architect has been written off on the basis of very late works which were more the work of his nephew , MacVicar Anderson , and his chief clerk , Colling , under his direction . |
| 14 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 15 | The goodwill was fully written off in the year of acquisition and has been excluded from the calculation of profit on disposal ( see note 28 ) . |
| 16 | The extreme elaboration of the proceedings is intended to emphasize that , in contrast to the kind of marriage which can be entered into or broken off on the spur of the moment , this is a contract which is intended to endure . |
| 17 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 18 | We get a little Federation Cup , which is on now and again , and just the final from Brighton which is broken off at the end of the second set for snooker . |
| 19 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
| 20 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 21 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 22 | It follows that the volume in which the fire occurs should be capable of being partitioned off from the rest of the storage , if the agent is to be used effectively and cheaply . |
| 23 | To compound the problem , the all-important first-time buyer may be a vanishing species , partly frightened off by the fate of those who were saddled with huge mortgages in the slump , and partly reducing in number because of demographics . |
| 24 | From Caniço we go back up onto the main airport road and continue on to Santa Cruz ( 20km ) , whose centre is situated off to the right of the main road . |
| 25 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 26 | The Respiratory Quotient ( R.Q. ) of an organism is the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide given off to the volume of oxygen absorbed during respiration . |
| 27 | Shorter wavelengths are felt by us as heat , and are also given off in the warmth of our bodies . |
| 28 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 29 | They could then be sold off to the tune of a hundred million pounds to pay off debts . |
| 30 | In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century . |