Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government faxed a clear signal last week that it has written off the science vote . |
| 2 | HOPES that there will be more interest rate cuts to come sparked off a fresh shares boom yesterday . |
| 3 | AN Ayrshire schoolboy 's shock at conditions in an East African secondary school has sparked off a remarkable effort to help the pupils . |
| 4 | Secondly , the use of computers has sparked off an interest in the development of new , more clearly-defined methods in cartography while , at the same time , relieving the cartographer from the labour of manual drafting . |
| 5 | She sees red , however , when the slogans and other aspects of her designs are copied and bowdlerised ; she has sounded off a great deal about suing the culprits , a litigious reflex often apparent in her career . |
| 6 | While Lady Chatterley outrages viewers on BBC1 , and Carlton Television invest in a major three-part drama called A Woman 's Guide to Adultery ( to be screened in the autumn ) Ray has pulled off a major scoop now . |
| 7 | BERMANS , the Liverpool commercial law firm , has pulled off a coup in civil litigation work . |
| 8 | Rainbow , who has pulled off the road for a closer look at her broken window , can almost smell the bloodlust underneath the righteous wrath . |
| 9 | TOG O' WAR ace Steve Churchill has pulled off the greatest prize — a world championship . |
| 10 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 11 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 12 | After he has killed off the whole lot of them in various ways , he shouts in triumph , ‘ Jesus , I got 'em all ! ’ |
| 13 | Pagan Osborne Grace & Calders , Fife 's biggest firm of solicitors , has paid off the staff , including four part-timers , because of the impact of the recession on its conveyancing work combined with the introduction of new technology . |
| 14 | After they 'd cooled off a bit , you 'd have to go and water them . |
| 15 | When Chris Oakey decided to create a set of life size figures for his A Level Art project , his teachers feared he 'd bitten off a bit more than he could chew . |
| 16 | Cara nodded , and elatedly went on to tell them that she had heard , only that morning when she 'd looked in at her office to check her post before driving up to Cheltenham , that she 'd pulled off an interview with none other than Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 17 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 18 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 19 | Normally his provocative question would have sparked off a fiery response , but now , feeling gloomy and depressed , Luce said nothing . |
| 20 | Kings boss Chris Kelly added : ‘ I did n't want to play at all and feel that on a neutral ground with our display against Peterborough we could have pulled off a shock win . |
| 21 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 22 | Having switched off the light , she locked the door and took the key with her . |
| 23 | Would they have switched off the cold fountains in Trafalgar Square ? |
| 24 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 25 | Having killed off the author and dragged all manner of cultural forms into the debate he finally reaffirms the text and its readability . |
| 26 | His meeting with Peters also seems to have sparked off the long voyaging section of ‘ Death by Water ’ in the Waste Land manuscripts , which would be united with the fate of the ancient Phoenician sailor , Phlebas , and details of which would find their way into ‘ Marina ’ and ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ . |
| 27 | Not to be confused with Pergolesi 's catalytic opera of the same name ( the one reputed to have sparked off the operatic ‘ Guerre des Bouffons ’ in Paris ) , Paisiello 's La Serva padrona ( ‘ The Servant Mistress ’ ) has enjoyed a less exalted fate . |
| 28 | That 's no good at all , because when that goes the job stops and I do n't get paid off the grants people and the bank holds the deeds and , if I do n't forthcome with the grant money , then I will lose the house . |
| 29 | The mortaring had eased off a bit . |
| 30 | ‘ Are we prisoners ? ’ said Gurder , who had cooled off a bit . |