Example sentences of "been [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bill was brought forward in response to the outcry from consumers and the industry about the way that , over the years , they have been ripped off by the privatised utilities and the fact that , while the regulators have made a contribution — no one would deny that — they have not done anything like enough and do not have the necessary power or resources to advance consumer interests and issues . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 4 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 5 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 6 | Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 7 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 8 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 9 | However , the Jordanian government considered that a further US$40,000,000 owed to Saudi Arabia since the mid-1980s had previously been written off by the Saudi ruler King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz . |
| 10 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 11 | The company has been put into liquidation , and some of its assets have been sold off to a rival firm . |
| 12 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 13 | Whether this burning interest came from a transmigration from a previous existence I do not know , but it may have been sparked off by a small and relatively insignificant incident which occurred in the spring of 1929 . |
| 14 | The murder could have been sparked off by a minor row leading to a slap or punch . |
| 15 | An Amoco spokesman described the evacuation as a ‘ controlled downmanning ’ although it had been sparked off by the early-morning emergency . |
| 16 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 17 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
| 18 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 19 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | BRITISH workers have been laid off as a fly-the-flag mission to Seville 's Expo '92 flopped . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Turkey is the third of those three NATO countries , along with Greece and Germany , which had been sliced off by the cold war from a familiar next-door world . |
| 24 | In his opinion there was no doubt that Miss Ward 's head had been cut off with a single blow from a sharp instrument . |
| 25 | During talks on Feb. 2 the two sides agreed to resume border trade which had been cut off since the 1962 Sino-Indian War . |
| 26 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 27 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 28 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 29 | For those that have been put off by the laborious nature of the program 's drawing method the new freehand and auto trace tools offer a quick and easy method of generating high quality artwork from scanned or existing material . |
| 30 | 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 . |