Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Egypt and Syria have a smaller stake in the war , but they also have sound pragmatic reasons for seeing off a rival . |
| 2 | Doubtless he had his own reasons for stopping off at the island — my own were to attend a workshop aimed at formulating a scientific plan for the development of the archipelago over the next two decades . |
| 3 | The threat to employ outside contractors is in line with plans for hiving off parts of the ambulance service sketched out by Mr Clarke during the dispute . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to run the business myself , I have plans for paying off the bills of each creditor in instalments and then trying to build up the business again . |
| 5 | Five hours after setting off , they knew their bid was futile . |
| 6 | A yachtsman has been reunited with his wife — five months after setting off on a voyage which should have lasted just four weeks . |
| 7 | ‘ I would advise authors against racing off to write their own 1,400-word Indian sagas , ’ said Mr Clee . |
| 8 | Believing that an artist has to suffer to make his statement , he puts himself through dangerous sequences like cutting off his breathing . |
| 9 | A co-operative arrangement which keeps the trees healthy and prevents the animals from killing off their food supply . |
| 10 | As well as supplying cricket clubs 3D have supplied pitches for a number of local authorities and many country grounds , while Lilleshall — where England went through their paces before flying off to New Zealand — have had practice pitches installed . |
| 11 | They are parasitic on fish , feeding on the blood for three months before dropping off as miniature mussels . |
| 12 | The epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) among Britain 's cows is showing signs of levelling off . |
| 13 | Robert and Carol , who also have a son , Daniel , and another daughter Emma , had warned Johanna of the dangers of going off with strangers . |
| 14 | SINCE Barclays Bank has just won an award for being model employers despite laying off hundreds of workers , I suppose the Government deserves three gold medals for allowing Cammell Laird to close . |
| 15 | A police spokesman said Blandford had also been charged with four offences of making off without payment to taxi drivers for amounts ranging between £11 and £70 . |
| 16 | You can express your concerns before heading off to the pop concert . |
| 17 | Dismissing the irritating Leo from her mind , she ran lightly upstairs to collect a thick sweater and to pull on heavy shoes before setting off across the boggy field behind the cottage towards the bend in the river . |
| 18 | It proved its mettle in trials by shrugging off a 30mph crash into a 100-ton concrete block . |
| 19 | SCRIPTWRITER David Yallop planned to pep up EastEnders by killing off Pete Beale with an IRA bomb . |
| 20 | Most Iraqis share his conviction that , although Iraq started the war , it served the interests of all Arabs by fighting off the Persian onslaught . |
| 21 | Organizations which are in the process of implementing GIS strategies also appreciate that the ‘ ease of use ’ factor is a key control over how quickly GIS programmes can be implemented , and therefore the speed with which financial targets for paying off capital costs can be met . |
| 22 | TEN athletes from Cornwall are hoping to complete an interrupted run from John o' Groats to Land 's End — 13 years after setting off . |
| 23 | Lifting a crop two weeks after burning off with sulphuric acid allows the tuber skins to set , which reduces the risk of mechanical damage during handling and transit . |
| 24 | Similarly , bees learn landmarks after taking off : a recruit who arrived and fed at the feeder , but was transported back to the hive while feeding , returned without the slightest memory of the landmarks she must certainly have seen on her arrival . |
| 25 | Pat will ‘ kick off ’ proceedings on the day at 1.15pm when he launches 1 , balloons before setting off on a fun walk with everyone who has come along . |
| 26 | But we should at least notice how the new emphasis on the negative part of conventionalism deflates the hypothesis I mentioned earlier , that the negative part supports the political ideal of protected expectations by marking off cases in which that ideal can not be satisfied . |
| 27 | Doom Divers take their opportunity very seriously , practising for weeks by jumping off increasingly taller rocks , strengthening their arms by flapping their wings as they run about in circles , and getting trolls to throw them into the air . |
| 28 | The mutual assistance of harem owners in driving off non-reproductive males may be the basis of herd formation in the gelada baboon . |
| 29 | The milky-white substance which cloaked Bourn every day totally stopped the heavy bombers from taking off , and at that time the Allied armies were coping with the Battle of the Bulge in France and desperately needed air support . |
| 30 | Volkswagen , which is the largest European car producer , has in recent months aligned itself behind the car protectionist lobby because , heavily dependent on high cost German labour , it is aware that it will have difficulties in beating off Japanese cars when they are imported without quotas into Europe . |