Example sentences of "are [vb pp] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these buyers are turned off by the sleek lines and road-sensitive ride of classy European marques such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz . |
| 2 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 3 | Only 130 of the original population of 1,000 Arara Indians survive , according to Fiona Watson of Survival International , and 40 of these , contacted for the first time in 1988 , are cut off from the main community by the Bannach road . |
| 4 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |
| 5 | These are rounded off to the nearest number of complete bars . ) |