Example sentences of "off [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice trailed off as the two pairs of eyes fixed on her and her head drooped as she said , ‘ That was a silly thing to say . |
| 2 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 3 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 4 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 5 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 6 | Ossie and Tito steal him back and set off for the wild reaches of western Ireland with Byrne , Kelly and their friend Kathleen ( Barkin ) in hot pursuit . |
| 7 | When the miller unleashes this stallion to plunge straight off after the wild mares in the fen ( 4057 – 66 ) he unwittingly unleashes the whole course of events that will lead to the " swyvinges " in his family 's bedchamber that night . |
| 8 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 9 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 10 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 11 | The problem is , as each head hits the ground it bursts into a thousand little crabs that go skittering off into the far reaches of my body . |
| 12 | I would have to slip away to toilets , down basement stairs , off into the closed stacks of the library and there strike the flint . |
| 13 | Or shovelled off into the Old Folks like me . |
| 14 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 17 | There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures . |
| 18 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
| 19 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 20 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 21 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 22 | And then we 've got the young cattle off to the two places on the other side of the island and then the third place at just last year . |
| 23 | The party then moved off down the Spanish Steps to the Hotel della Villa where the main dinner and presentations took place . |
| 24 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 25 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 26 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |
| 27 | With no further words , she set off across the wide lawns of the De Belving gardens , scattering a couple of sleepy peacocks as she went . |
| 28 | Do n't be put off by the two sets of coordinates . |
| 29 | The light above her was remote and useless , blocked off by the triangular edges of the staircase . |
| 30 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |