Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb -s] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 2 | This ‘ sensing ’ system is linked to a lid ‘ Shut-Off Valve , ’ so that if the lid is accidentally closed with a hotplate burner still on , the gas to the hotplate shuts off immediately and stays off whilst the lid is down . |
| 3 | The afternoon kicks off with a tour of the former Delorean complex including a trip around the original test track . |
| 4 | Personally , I do not find it objectionable , and in any case the smell goes off very quickly when it comes into contact with the soil and bacteria get to work on it . |
| 5 | Same thing is to take the take screws off and just try and door and see whether how much extra space you need , I mean , maybe you might be able to do it by just |
| 6 | Such practices include cultivating on steep slopes so the topsoil runs off when the rains come , or ploughing downhill with the same end result . |
| 7 | What happens is that the drug kills off a lot of the resident Candida , the yeast cells burst open , and some of the cell contents are absorbed into the bloodstream , producing an exaggerated version of the usual symptoms . |
| 8 | Erm You know the ring er the r er roundabout as you go down Monkgate , er one one of the l the roads goes off to Huntington Road and the other one is is Heworth Green and then the other road goes off now to Sainsburys . |
| 9 | The road continues past the buildings and after ¾ mile the trail runs off through the trees to the forest perimeter . |
| 10 | If the female is of a different species , she emits a buzz and the male flies off to try his luck elsewhere . |
| 11 | The female sits inside the nest while the male goes off collecting nest material . |
| 12 | Once the nest is completed , the male sets off in search of a female . |
| 13 | Traction alopecia is caused by tightly pulled pony-tails , braids and chignons ; friction alopecia occurs when hair bands , wigs or hats are too tight and the hair breaks off . |
| 14 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 15 | A tremendous amount of care and ardour has gone into the beginning and then the story tails off , almost as if that initial effort had been too much . |
| 16 | And , though the story kills off the painter , the big draw himself is sure to return larger than life . |
| 17 | This completes the circuit in the switch so a current flows to the lamp 's electrodes and heats them , The glow discharge stops when the contacts touch ; the strip cools off and the contacts reopen . |
| 18 | IBM Corp is to supply the Norwegian government 's Supercomputing Committee with two RS/6000 PowerServer 980s and 12 Model 580 workstations linked as a cluster : hosted by the University of Oslo , the installation kicks off a three-year joint venture project between IBM and Norway 's supercomputing centre . |
| 19 | The play tails off into the cries and inarticulate exclamations where , escaping the situation in which ‘ I got ta use words ’ in their normal sense , language becomes a cry of despair and horror as primal as the ‘ Wah ! |
| 20 | The march moves off , the people chanting lustily : ‘ Stuff the election up your arse ’ , watched benevolently by the police . |
| 21 | If the machine does n't try to access the A : drive , i.e. the light stays off , either the BIOS has been instructed , in the set-up , not to seek the A : drive , or both floppy drive connectors are the wrong way round . |
| 22 | The light swerves off in an instant , and it 's darker than ever . |
| 23 | Many people find that the weight drops off quickly once the holiday has finished . |
| 24 | Every time I flick the rod in an attempt to mend the line the crust pulls off course and washes into the rubbish raft instead of curling round the edge of the tree trunk . |
| 25 | The car sets off in a series of lurches across the gravel , for a moment blotting out , or perhaps silencing , the night life . |
| 26 | The result rounds off a very successful season for Tracy , who returns to her studies at Newcastle University later this month . |
| 27 | A rapid winch launch will tend to pitch the glider back on to the tail , making a larger forward movement necessary to get the tail off the ground and so ensure a margin of speed when the aircraft takes off . |
| 28 | ‘ If the wheel comes off on Stitherstones Pass she may go over the precipice ! ’ cried Jenny 's daddy . |
| 29 | The King lifts the ban on political parties and the opposition calls off its " stir " . |
| 30 | Having edged him to the end of the branch , he utters a shattering ‘ bock ’ in his ear and the rival falls off . |