Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 2 | ‘ We are very worried someone is going to fall down the cliff or slip off the ship and break something . |
| 3 | Dip this end into hormone rooting powder while it is still moist from the cut so that some powder adheres , shake or tap off the surplus and lay it aside for a few minutes while the others are being prepared . |
| 4 | ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks . |
| 5 | Or kick off the goal-line . |
| 6 | People doing market research , or marking off a check list will then enter data by ticking boxes . |
| 7 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 8 | In simple language , it is normally sufficient for the occupier to make reasonable endeavours to keep out or chase off the potential or actual intruder who is likely to be or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 9 | Where the vessel is left unattended moored or anchored off an exposed beach or shore no claim will be payable for breaking adrift from the mooring or anchor and the subsequent damage . |
| 10 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
| 11 | Secondly , the event risk is the likelihood of such a person forgetting to light the gas , switch off the electric cooker , lock the doors , or turn off the bath tap . |
| 12 | Our pattern will return of course , as we did not erase it or switch off the controller . |
| 13 | The pictures that curators tried for decades to coax or pry off the Barnes 's walls will also travel to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and then to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo . |
| 14 | Yes it 's a page of Government paper in Summerchild 's judicious hand , which does not make holes in the paper , or need x-ing out , or fall off the bottom of the page : |
| 15 | They live hand to mouth and get no pension or help off the state . |
| 16 | As well as the success in managing to circumvent , persuade or buy off the opposition to nuclear power plants , France has also established a formula for building PWRs quicker than anyone else . |
| 17 | Some mares will actually stand and paw at a paddock fence because they want to get to a stallion that is a couple of paddocks away — consequently they are likely to cut a leg or rip off a shoe if the bottom wire of the fence is too close to the ground . |
| 18 | This is partly philanthropic and partly economic — it may cost more to process the bill and collect the money than to write off the charge ! |
| 19 | Their publications would do credit to any university : Libertarian Conflicts in Social Choice , by UBS Phillips & Drew 's John Wriglesworth , The Role of Crack Resistance Parameters in Polymer Wear , by Williams de Broe 's Mustapha Omar and Stellar Winds ( which might conceivably be a volume of poetry ) by Robert Fleming 's Martin Murch are just a few of the titles that leap off the page . |
| 20 | His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets . |
| 21 | If one analyses the appeal of desktop publishing the basic appeal is its capability to generate material that looks printed , not like something that came off a daisywheel or dot matrix printer . |
| 22 | Its motion can be detected — for example , by deflecting a laser beam that bounces off a mirror attached to the needle . |
| 23 | There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders . |
| 24 | Fortunately , it was obvious that Luke had done no more than drop off a suitcase . |
| 25 | Those who imagine that they see the spectre of euthanasia raising its head look with particular misgiving at the doctor 's decision to discontinue ventilation.4 Those lawyers who have given the issue their attention have accepted the common factual assumption that turning off a ventilator is significant , and have then sought legal arguments by which to justify it.5 For they have had to recognize both that it is a common medical practice , and that it is one which prima facie calls for some justification . |
| 26 | This was certainly more dramatic than the more publicized event that finished off the dinosaurs . |
| 27 | It was the part of him that switched off the alarm in the morning and made him sleep in . |
| 28 | Beams that bounce off the target are received by the interceptor , which passes the information back to the ground . |
| 29 | Oysters , gentlemen — I 'll provide the oysters , and it 'll be the oysters that pay off the overdraft . " |
| 30 | Why , in other words , should perception be of the perceived object rather than any other object in the causal chain further back in the causal chain ; why every perception should not be of the Big Bang that started off the Universe . |