Example sentences of "been [verb] off [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 2 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 3 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 4 | Collected elsewhere , these might have been written off as terrestrial contamination . |
| 5 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 6 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 7 | It denied , however , that the reactor was one of two which had been turned off after particular criticism . |
| 8 | The spot has been cordoned off with orange tape . |
| 9 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |
| 10 | Some of our more charming wayside stations have been sold off as private houses . |
| 11 | Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult as the numbers of new council houses being built have been greatly reduced in recent years , while many have been sold off by Conservative councils . |
| 12 | It was sad , nevertheless , that six months of planning had not been shown off to better effect . |
| 13 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 14 | This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners . |
| 15 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 16 | Yes , by the way I 'm gon na be able to see Max , I 'll tell you that now because I 've been dragged off to another conference , I 'm actually going down to the , to the rehabilitation workers ' phones |
| 17 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 18 | Mrs Singh had now effectively become cut off from her children 's education just as Balbinder had been cut off from local peer group relationships . |
| 19 | An estimated 100,000 Muslims have been cut off in eastern Bosnia since Serbs rebelled against the declaration of independence by Muslims and Croats . |
| 20 | The styling has been rounded off at each end and VW house-style rectangular headlights have been fitted . |
| 21 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 22 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
| 23 | Adrian Newman , a director of Knottingley-based Paul Caddick , says potential tenants for the CADCAM office scheme have been put off by poor access into the development . |
| 24 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 25 | Thanks to the generosity of staff in LASMO 's London offices , bags full of loose foreign coins — worth about £500 — have been sent off to two children 's charities . |
| 26 | Bradbury , who had also been sent off to this destination on 24 February , in company with Sqn.Ldr . |
| 27 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 28 | In any case they were sitting upstairs in Willi 's little loggia ( the gallery of the Spa Rooms had not lent itself to conversion into boxes , but parts of the curved balcony had been sectioned off with wrought-iron grills into small loggias for distinguished guests ) . |