Example sentences of "be sparked off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Amoco spokesman described the evacuation as a ‘ controlled downmanning ’ although it had been sparked off by the early-morning emergency . |
| 2 | Moreover , Keeble argued ( see section 2.4 ) that the shifts in the 1970s were due precisely to the counter-processes which can be sparked off by the concentration of development in a particular area . |
| 3 | The strikes were sparked off by the rank and file , most were unofficial , and often they were resisted at the outset by national trade union leaderships . |
| 4 | ‘ It was ’ , he would read , ‘ inevitable that the Solidarity revolution was sparked off by the Gdansk shipyard workers . |
| 5 | Our concern about police investigations was sparked off by the realisation that the trial is not an adequate tool for testing their reliability , which in turn disqualifies the trial as a verifying test . |
| 6 | The crisis was sparked off by the arrest and dismissal on Feb. 19 of three Council members , namely Col. Thaabe Letsie , Lt.-Col. Joshua Sekhobe Letsie ( both cousins of the King ) and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , and of the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications , Maj. Philip Moyani Mokhanto . |
| 7 | The unrest was sparked off by the arrest of a local policeman on charges of corruption . |
| 8 | It was sparked off by the rape of a schoolgirl at a school in northern Paris on Sept. 27 , and by other attacks in schools in the Paris area . |