Example sentences of "which [verb] off the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits . |
| 3 | And that despite an interest-rate ceiling of 4.25% imposed by Congress until the mid-1970s , which shut off the long-bond market to government borrowing . |
| 4 | There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle . |
| 5 | 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 . |