Example sentences of "been [verb] off by [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The murder could have been sparked off by a minor row leading to a slap or punch . |
| 6 | An Amoco spokesman described the evacuation as a ‘ controlled downmanning ’ although it had been sparked off by the early-morning emergency . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For the time being , the American peace plan has been killed off by the Labour Party 's failure to form a government . |
| 10 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |