Example sentences of "spark off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time our conscious , if unspoken , strategy was to provoke the police into over-reaction and thus spark off a mass reaction against the authorities . |
| 2 | The new law immediately sparked off a political crisis as hardline Slovak nationalists began demonstrations and a hunger strike in protest against a clause allowing the official use of minority languages in towns or villages where the minority nationality formed at least 20 per cent of the population ( a large ethnic Hungarian minority , concentrated in southern Slovakia , was increasingly the target of nationalist hatred ; there were also Polish , Ukrainian and Gypsy communities ) . |
| 3 | Normally his provocative question would have sparked off a fiery response , but now , feeling gloomy and depressed , Luce said nothing . |
| 4 | AN Ayrshire schoolboy 's shock at conditions in an East African secondary school has sparked off a remarkable effort to help the pupils . |
| 5 | One person 's idea can influence and spark off a better idea in another , and through the interchange something can be created which is more useful than either could achieve alone . |
| 6 | The result of these efforts to stiffen Orthodoxy 's moral fibre , however , was to spark off a disastrous schism within the Church . |
| 7 | And it was the arrival of one of the men who had denied them victory in the past that helped to spark off the renewed challenge in 1993 . |
| 8 | If team performances slumped , as they did in 1910–11 , attendances fell disastrously , sparking off a financial crisis . |
| 9 | Jay sat on the white balcony , shaded from a Mediterranean sun burning off white walls , sparking off a turquoise sea where the bright sails of a skiff were silk balloons shot with dazzle , sparkles of pure light bursting behind the boat as it skimmed the perfect waters . |
| 10 | In the early 1960s , Alexander Thom , a retired Scottish professor of engineering , sparked off a great deal of interest and controversy in the archaeological community through his claims for the existence of a ‘ megalithic yard ’ , an ancient unit of measurement used by the builders of megalithic monuments . |
| 11 | The killing of Earnwine , son of Eadwulf , in 740 may have been a prolongation of older rivalries which sparked off a new cycle of vendetta . |
| 12 | The cryptic little comment sparked off a tiny glimmer of hope deep within her — could he be trying to tell her that she 'd proved distracting ? |
| 13 | Suddenly , Harry 's increasing breathlessness sparked off a coughing bout . |
| 14 | The court was told the incident sparked off a week-long rooftop protest by inmates at Franklands Jail , County Durham . |
| 15 | The original incident , during a visit to Miss Bayliss ' heroin addict brother , Michael , sparked off a week-long roof top protest by inmates at the jail . |
| 16 | Arsenal 's poor performances in January 1933 sparked off a minor panic among supporters , and Chapman was even called upon to deny the widespread rumour that the new West Stand was to be dismantled and re-erected at Tottenham , the ultimate ignominy . |
| 17 | He was born in 1898 and one of his earliest and most vivid memories was of seeing Sir Henry Irving in The Bells , an event which sparked off a life-long passion for the theatre . |
| 18 | A MAN sparked off a full scale alert last night after he refused to be rescued as he drifted a mile and a half off shore in the North Sea in only a five foot toy dinghy . |
| 19 | The SHE/Seven Seas survey , Is PMS Your Problem ? sparked off a massive response . |
| 20 | The controversies surrounding severe mental handicap which began in the early 1980s sparked off a national debate which continues today . |
| 21 | Gregory 's programme of radical reform depended upon the law and a renewed interest in legal study and declaration provided the impetus which sparked off the legal renaissance of the twelfth century . |
| 22 | An aria sparked off the Belgian revolution , and the Monnaie , where it all began , is now home to an excellent opera company . |
| 23 | The 1919 Versailles Conference decision to award Shandong to Japan sparked off the nationalist eruption of the 4 May Movement in Beijing and a boycott of Japanese goods . |
| 24 | An event a quarter of a century ago sparked off the nationalist project that has now been brought so violently to an end . |
| 25 | It brought onto Chinese territory Russian forces whose reluctance to withdraw from the province of Manchuria sparked off the Russo-Japanese War a few years later . |
| 26 | Another factor which quickened the change in the status of the Foreign Office was the series of reforms instigated by the Treasury in 1848 which by 1852 , when the Foreign Office applied for additional staff , sparked off an acrimonious controversy between the two offices . |
| 27 | That act , after all the histrionics from his team-mates in this series , sparked off an ugly reaction . |