Example sentences of "trigger off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction of competition and credit control triggered off a considerable amount of comment and criticism from the City as well as from within academic circles . |
| 2 | The visit to South Africa of several eminent Irish Rugby Football Union officers and their wives — among them the president , Ronnie Dawson — triggered off an acrimonious debate which looks likely to run on in spite of an IRFU statement regretting the safari . |
| 3 | In returning to the old imagery of the prince as the bearer of the sword , the reformers had in fact triggered off an important set of associations . |
| 4 | For Geoffroy , a change in the environment might trigger off a new pattern of growth in the organism — but the result was determined more by the laws of growth than by the adaptive needs of the organism . |
| 5 | Once it has been killed , the kitten may trigger off a new reaction . |
| 6 | In particular , the New Moon present in your own birth sign on the 29th will trigger off a new period of some really quite remarkable and reassuring developments in your very personal life . |
| 7 | They reach a point where even the smallest stimulus will trigger off a massive reaction . |
| 8 | Anyone who has a history of epilepsy ( even if that condition is being fully controlled by medication ) should never on any account be hypnotized , as the process of entering the appropriate altered state of mind can actually trigger off an epileptic fit . |
| 9 | The British played an important part in triggering off a European response to American signals that large-scale aid would be forthcoming only if the Europeans themselves demonstrated an ability to co-operate and to produce a programme for recovery which satisfied American criteria . |
| 10 | Many of these techniques culminate in your being able to trigger off a general sense of relaxation when it suits you . |
| 11 | The idea enters the brain and by being given meaning triggers off a biochemical process which soothes and makes us feel happy . |