Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although advances such as secondary high-limit thermostats , which cut off the power if the fryer overheats , are now fitted as standard on almost all machines , there have been plenty of other developments . |
| 2 | He found that from the intersection of Fleming 's Cross-cut with the vein , the level had been taken S.E. along it for 40 fathoms , at the forehead of which was a cross-course which cut off the lode . |
| 3 | This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course . |
| 4 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 5 | The scores of islands which lie off the Adriatic coast are the crests of mountain ranges which foundered during periods of tectonic disturbances . |
| 6 | Another vital component are macrophages , cells which attack bacteria , and other substances which fend off the bugs responsible for many stomach upsets , so babies have far greater protection against diarrhoea . |
| 7 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 8 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 9 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 10 | Gill ‘ maggots ’ ( Ergasilus ) are , in fact , crustaceans , though the parasitic adult females , which feed off the gill filaments , adopt a wormlike form . |
| 11 | Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits . |
| 12 | These differences might be represented as those which mark off the specialist team from the others . |
| 13 | Of the 21 species of ant attracted to the arillate seeds , there are predatory carnivorous ponerines , which bear off the seeds , like animal prey , to the nest , where the nutritious arils are removed . |
| 14 | One theory of the origin of ice ages is that they occur when large masses ( for example , comets ) crash down onto the Earth , throwing up vast amounts of detritus into the stratosphere which block off the heat from the Sun . |
| 15 | And that despite an interest-rate ceiling of 4.25% imposed by Congress until the mid-1970s , which shut off the long-bond market to government borrowing . |
| 16 | There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle . |