Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the recession been staved off for longer , support for the Scottish Nationalists — now at 31 p.c. in the polls and only seven points behind Labour — might not have been as strong . |
| 2 | Dirt and moisture are brushed off by the Coral Clean-off-Zone as people walk over it . |
| 3 | The topmost whorls of the shell are broken off . |
| 4 | He could neither move nor think , as if all power had at a stroke been cut off from both body and brain . |
| 5 | Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities . |
| 6 | The ships in the harbour are letting off rockets . |
| 7 | FORTY talented musicians from the North-East are to show off their skills in two concerts at Darlington Arts Centre . |
| 8 | ABOUT 40 talented musicians from the North-East are to show off their skills at two concerts at Darlington Arts Centre . |
| 9 | Id be pissed off too . |
| 10 | The possibility of one association being played off against another was obvious . |
| 11 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 12 | Her splendidly white skin and fine neck were shown off by a square décolletage , messy swathes of lace tied over her bosom by what seemed a white shoe-lace . |
| 13 | In the first edition of this book , I wrote that the use of econometrics in advertising was roughly at the stage before the square edges of the first wheel were rounded off . |
| 14 | I can recall on one occasion the league programme being snowed off on the fifth Saturday in March . |
| 15 | The professionals who had survived the cut were teeing off from 8 till 11 . |
| 16 | In order to stop the printer echo being turned off at the end of the CLI command file , the CLI is suspended with the " . |
| 17 | Even if all government money for research were cut off ( and the present government is doing its best ) , the force of competition would still bring about advances in technology . |
| 18 | This custom continued , the telegram being sent off on the morning of the shoot and the telegram of thanks being read out at lunch . |
| 19 | Each particular religion is marked off from others in two ways — outwardly , by its origins and history , and inwardly , by the particular way in which it gives expression to the essential religious consciousness . |
| 20 | He observed that the retail end of the business , which will comprise Tandy Corp after the manufacturing side is spun off , showed earnings of $2.10 a share for 1992 . |
| 21 | The programme is rounded off with a two-day visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair . |
| 22 | An irreducible hernia may strangulate , i.e. the contents of the sac of the hernia may be constricted so that the circulation is cut off thus leading to gangrene and eventually perforation of the bowel ( a surgical emergency ) . |
| 23 | This is particularly emphasised in progressive municipal boroughs , whose opposition is written off as the insanity of the ‘ loony left ’ , to the extent that the Labour Party itself seems nervous of suggesting anything socialist or progressive for fear of losing the middle ground . |
| 24 | I was told that in Britain the weather has to be really dire before a mountain rescue search is called off . |
| 25 | ‘ The tension is coming off you like little arrows . ’ |
| 26 | The lower half of the Harvesters ' Vase priest is broken off , so we have no way of knowing how his lower half was clothed , but the seal impression shows that underneath the pleated skirt the man was wearing the sacral hide garment . |
| 27 | In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost . |
| 28 | The polarity of the crystal is preserved for at least a year and , in theory , as long as 10 years after power to the cell is switched off . |
| 29 | When the cell is switched off ( 1 ) polarised light enters the cell . |
| 30 | I 've let them know it 's , it 's going ahead erm and that the vote is coming off . |