Example sentences of "[noun sg] off from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 2 | On Thursday 3 October , a bomb caused a large crater in London Road , Thornton Heath , between Dunheved Road North and Dunheved Road South , cutting the depôt off from the rest of the Croydon system . |
| 3 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 4 | The next time you need to backup the directory you copy it into \WORK\WORK\WORK and so on until you feel that it is time to start the backup off from the start again . |
| 5 | On Thursday , her half-day off from the shop , as Rachaela was sitting in her chair listening to Tchaikovsky ballet music , the door sounded . |
| 6 | The YCCC however were able to raise public awareness of the issues involved , and in doing so learned that the only taxes coming from the tannery were those being paid by the workers themselves , that the city was grossly undercharging the tannery for the use of the sewage treatment plant , and that there was a sewer-use ordinance that , if enforced , would solve the problem immediately by cutting the tannery off from the sewage treatment plant . |
| 7 | A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song . |
| 8 | Although Evert had the day off from the Federation Cup yesterday , her presence was still felt , particularly by the Australian team , who surprisingly defeated Bulgaria 2-1 . |
| 9 | ( Old hands recall how Punch , on a day off from the Paris bureau in 1955 , saw a sports car plough into the crowd at Le Mans and kill 87 people ; no other reporter from the newspaper was there , yet it never occurred to Punch to call his office . ) |
| 10 | A few of the men had taken a rare day off from the quarries and the recognitions were more generous than Harrison had anticipated . |
| 11 | Janice had taken that day off from the library . |
| 12 | Because what defence mechanisms do is is as says , is fend the unconscious off from the conscious . |
| 13 | You could , for example , divide the table area off from the working area with a storage/serving wall or the sort of peninsular unit described on pages 107 and 116 . |
| 14 | It followed a tip off from a member of the public about the explicit sexual nature of material available for sale or hire . |
| 15 | Only when a package burst open did the sheriff receive a tip off from the postal service U P S. |
| 16 | Usually he was in camouflage smock and holding an A.K. at the hip , and would probably have knocked half his pelvis off from the recoil if he had fired at that angle . |
| 17 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 18 | ‘ Overwhelming negativity marked this year off from the last ’ , he observed , ‘ … the real revolution is poetry , the revolution is in your mind . ’ |
| 19 | First , how to shift disability representation off from the body and into the interface between people with impairments and socially disabling conditions . |
| 20 | When he gets time off from a fairly packed schedule after The Eleventh Station he 'll be teaming up with the Muscles from Brussels , Jean Claude van Damme , in a film called Universal Soldier Dolph relaxes by playing the drums . |
| 21 | On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs . |
| 22 | Taking time off from the Japan Festival at the Royal Albert Hall , the Sumo wrestlers encouraged even the smallest participants who were raising money for the Spastics society . |
| 23 | Tong , as he is known in Thailand , graduated from the classic Jimmy White academy of excellence and , in taking time off from the classroom and money off mugs , he , like White , enjoyed some memorable moments . |
| 24 | Unlike the demands for time off from the farm , which is normally at short notice , the request for release for training courses could be made well in advance . |
| 25 | KEITH Richards has taken time off from the Rolling Stones to perform with his own band , the X-Pensive Winos . |
| 26 | That morning I took time off from the bank to visit Suor Eusebia , who told me exactly what had happened before Eric 's escape . |
| 27 | The latter split between what were to become known as ‘ weekend hippies ’ taking time off from the straight world , and those in Miles words , ‘ still trying ’ . |
| 28 | Michael Heseltine took time off from the campaign to meet his rubber double and Mike Rowbottom was there . |
| 29 | For both family farmers and part-time farmers it was essential to set dates well in advance of courses to allow sufficient time for organisation of work or time off from an off-farm job . |
| 30 | There do exist ways of identifying the boundaries of stretches of discourse which set one chunk of discourse off from the rest . |