Example sentences of "be [verb] off in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 2 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 3 | Within half and hour , Curtis learned his man had been driven off in a green Cadillac by the unfortunate owner of the car , whom he had taken hostage at gun point . |
| 4 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 5 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 6 | The remaining 51 per cent of Qantas will be sold off in a public share float some time next year . |
| 7 | Obviously this would only be of benefit if there were capital gains against which the loss can be set off in the current or future years . |
| 8 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 9 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 10 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |
| 11 | The mare will look after the foal until he 's at least five weeks old and then he 'll be weaned off in the natural way . |
| 12 | His footballing skills were obviously allied to a questionable temperament , and in January 1985 Frank McAvennie lived up to his immense promise , becoming the first Scottish footballer to be sent off in a Premier league match for giving a ‘ V ’ sign to the opposing fans . |
| 13 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 14 | Since p1 and qi have already been paired off in the appropriate manner ( i.e. they are equal ! ) we find that unc is not a nasty integer after all . |
| 15 | Could I also ask a question which you might be completely clear on , but I 'm not , when we do back checks on files and make sure they are all up to date and so on , we come across maybe a research approval which has n't been signed off in the right places , how far back in time do we need to get that signed off . |
| 16 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 17 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 18 | Tonight 's match will be Fashanu 's first since being taken off in the original match at Goodison Park . |
| 19 | In April the Smolensk Party advised the Roslavl' cell that contributions to the Famine were tailing off in the Roslavl' area , so two new directives were issued : first , to collect another famine tax , with every twenty town-workers or employees supporting one hungry child , and every five peasant households contributing for one hungry adult ; second , to hold agitational meetings in all trade-union branches and at village skhod meetings . |
| 20 | GARETH HALL will miss Chelsea 's Coca-Cola Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace after being sent off in the stormy fourth round replay against Everton . |
| 21 | Being sent off in the Metropolitan Police five-a-sides |
| 22 | He has been banned for six months after being sent off in the Royal Liver League final replay against Donegal . |
| 23 | The ‘ general interest ’ illustrated weekly magazines like Picture Post were killed off in the late 1950s by TV , even before the free colour magazines and expanded feature coverage of the Sunday papers , led by The Sunday Times , were introduced in the early 1960s . |
| 24 | Therefore , if a moth hears a bat approaching about 100 feet away , its best policy is to fly off in the other direction . |
| 25 | What is often worthwhile is the odd bundle of mouldings and carvings salvaged from an old building which is auctioned off in a single lot . |
| 26 | The pension is recently built , but is finished off in the traditional style . |
| 27 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 28 | Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser . |
| 29 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 30 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |