Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will give you gifts so that you are better off for ever … " ) |
| 2 | In some respects , we are better off without them . |
| 3 | First it is a game which creates wealth through the process of production exchange and all players in the game ( i.e. those supplying labour services , property and capital ) are better off as a result of it . |
| 4 | The Government 's claim that students are better off as a result of student loans simply is not true ; nor is it true that loans make up for the loss of income support and housing benefit . |
| 5 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 6 | This is Mike Jardine , one of Scotland 's leading extreme skiers , proving that naked apes are better off with one-piece skisuits . |
| 7 | If you really want to make light of powder you are better off with specialised hardware . |
| 8 | Even once a predator has found a school , the prey fish are better off in the school than they would be alone , as has been proved by the following experiment . |
| 9 | It is one of the ways in which we ensure that , so far as possible , people are better off in work than out of work . |
| 10 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 11 | I am better off without you . |
| 12 | Bruno Walter was there and afterwards I was offered the post of first kapellmeister ; but I had to say , frankly I am better off in Aachen . |
| 13 | If you are determined to give up smoking , you are already off to a good start . |
| 14 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 15 | If you have to eat a cold chip , you 're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one . |
| 16 | IF YOU 'RE A BRIGHTON , BLACKPOOL OR BOGNOR BABY , YOU 'RE BETTER OFF WITH BRITISH GAS WATER HEATING . |
| 17 | I think we 're better off with orange squash , just |
| 18 | You 're better off with something like this . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're better off without him , ’ said Gazzer . |
| 20 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 21 | And she came in and she was telling us all about it , and another woman who was there , she was the one who , she went over and sat beside here and said , Oh never mind and , You know we we we 'll get it sorted out , and , You 're better off without him . |
| 22 | You 're better off without the thing . |
| 23 | Robbie , believe me , you 're better off without him . ’ |
| 24 | We 're better off without them . |
| 25 | so I said as soon as you get your hair cut and shaved , then you 're better off without your wig , leave it well alone , she said that 's what I 'm gon na do , that 's what she 's gon na do |
| 26 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 27 | We 're also off to the West Ham game on Wed 8th , but Leeds tickets are limited to Sunderland-attenders — AGAIN ! |
| 28 | Such problems are far off for Rugby 's Spiritualized , though their first LP is the toast of the rock press at the moment : a spacey , dreamy , bubbling mantra of introspection and buried tunes that is quite captivating . |
| 29 | And i i i it 's , it 's a clear statement , at least to the cadres , that that moderate policy has now been abandoned and we are now off into land reform because this is what is happening anyway . |
| 30 | Now Brian , 43 , of Tickenham , Avon , tows around an 18ft high sign : ‘ You are WORSE off with Barclays . ’ |