Example sentences of "kill off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're , they 're built in remote places so you 've got all the , the er wild life around them and then you 've got er farmland which uses pesticide and stuff like , which kills off the insect life and to birds all young and stuff like that . |
| 2 | As with blood , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells , so that when cells are lost from the surface there are no new cells to replace them . |
| 3 | Again , just as it does in the skin , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells and this soon has dire effects on the surface of the gut , giving rise to one of the major causes of radiation sickness . |
| 4 | And , though the story kills off the painter , the big draw himself is sure to return larger than life . |
| 5 | The CNAA made ‘ a tacit political bargain with the DES … for the CNAA to have had a dagger in its hand and kill off the government scheme would not have done ’ . |
| 6 | They knew that in another day or two they would not even have to charge the ramparts ; they would merely have to step over them and kill off the garrison as they pleased . |
| 7 | That way we kill off the competition while we scoop the pool ourselves . |
| 8 | When someone gets a virus and becomes ill , the helper cells kill off the virus and usually they get better . |
| 9 | GRAHAM NEARN , MANAGING DIRECTOR , CATERHAM CARS LTD Life in the Lotus position General Motors ' decision to kill off the Lotus Elan shocked many British car enthusiasts . |
| 10 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 11 | Now she exclusively tells PETER GRANT about her four years with the top soap and reveals that she wanted the writers to kill off the character of Chrissie Rogers . |
| 12 | As Ronnie Convery found out , local activists hope to capitalise on the company 's financial problems to kill off the incinerator plan . |
| 13 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 14 | To kill off the prebendary , a reverend old man whose one hundredth birthday was going to be celebrated on the next Sunday , the second Sunday after Trinity , at St Andrew 's Church and just about everywhere else in Oxford … |
| 15 | Actually , it was Cook who killed off the revue form . |
| 16 | Everton , inspired throughout by Peter Beardsley , killed off the game by romping into a 3–0 lead in 38 minutes and could easily have doubled it . |
| 17 | We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’ |
| 18 | And Richard Bygrave killed off the game . |
| 19 | In answer to questions after the lecture Beamish said that the Russian Revolution had killed off the intelligentsia and that the country was now inhabited by ‘ animal life people ’ . |
| 20 | Drink and the devil had killed off the rest — |
| 21 | THE BRITISH government 's decision to pour taxpayers ' money into a new factory to make video tape for the Japanese firm , Hitachi , has finally killed off the idea of putting a tax on the tape . |
| 22 | Having killed off the author and dragged all manner of cultural forms into the debate he finally reaffirms the text and its readability . |
| 23 | In the final sad years of the S&D , it vividly shows how the Western Region inexorably killed off the line and how Norman and his station staff were at the forefront of the fight to save the route . |
| 24 | Can you amend the proof of 1.3.10 to obtain a proof of this conjecture — or can you supply a single counterexample which will kill off the conjecture ? |
| 25 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 26 | Institutional and professional continuity seems to allow established disciplines to contain epistemological doubts or crises which might kill off the fledgling . |
| 27 | The lysosome is called a ‘ suicide bag ’ said Prof Mayer , not only because it digests any waste materials by the use of powerful enzymes but also because this cocktail can kill off the cell . |
| 28 | Be careful not to use anything which has a bactericidal action to treat your pond , as it will kill off the filter bacteria and render it useless . |
| 29 | They say so-called home improvements can kill off the tourist trade . |
| 30 | He says this because it seems pointless for the sun to have done all this work , and then let war spoil everything and killing off the sun 's children . |