Example sentences of "[vb pp] off from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 2 | CHUBB Security , which was floated off from Racal Electronics last October , today published a sparkling first set of accounts as a separate company . |
| 3 | Odours and fumes given off from pans in which fish is fried , particularly when rancid oils or vegetable oils are used as the frying medium , are liable to give rise to objections from nearby residents . |
| 4 | a toxic emission given off from car exhausts |
| 5 | They made up one of the ten elite ‘ Strike Force ’ teams , all top field operatives who had been siphoned off from police , military and intelligence services around the world . |
| 6 | The reconstruction retraced the couple 's movements from 7pm when they are thought to have set off from Mrs Arnold 's flat in Shernhall Road , Walthamstow , east London . |
| 7 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |
| 8 | Mrs Chandler , 47 , had set off from Shap in Cumbria on August 25 . |
| 9 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 10 | Behind her the two seats were empty , a troublous reminder of where Eddie and Laura had sat side by side when the coach had first set off from Heathrow Airport … had first arrived at the eastern outskirts of Oxford . |
| 11 | Having settled all the necessary arrangements , the couple at last set off from Sydney on 14 September for Newcastle , and the mouth of the Hunter River . |
| 12 | While redundancy rights can sometimes arise in the context of men being laid off from work or put on short time , in the case of a business executive , redundancy almost always involves a dismissal . |
| 13 | Many should have been laid off from work as a consequence of the government 's deflationary policies . |
| 14 | I think we need to be theoretically and politically clear that no single culture is hermetically sealed off from others . |
| 15 | Each particular religion is marked off from others in two ways — outwardly , by its origins and history , and inwardly , by the particular way in which it gives expression to the essential religious consciousness . |
| 16 | whether nation be understood as a people marked off from others by blood relationship and habit of unity or by peculiarities of language , the most sure and positive sign and essence of a nation in divine and human law … or whether nation be understood as it should be , as a territory equal to that of the French nation |
| 17 | With armfuls of gifts and souvenirs , the 25 youngsters and seven teachers were waved off from Parkeston Quay by their hosts — children , parents and teachers from Harwich School . |
| 18 | The new business has been split off from IBM Personal Systems Business Europe , and is claimed to be one of the world 's largest software businesses ; operations are currently being formed in individual European countries . |
| 19 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 20 | ON JUNE 1st Zeneca , the drugs firm about to be spun off from Britain 's ICI , will discover the result of its £1.3 billion ( $1 billion ) rights issue . |
| 21 | In Britain it has seldom been more controversial than for Zeneca , a drugs firm being spun off from ICI on June 1st . |
| 22 | But it stuck in his mind that getting to England was something perilous and rare like rounding the Horn , it must have had something to do with his allowing himself to get so wholly cut off from Constanza later on . |
| 23 | I would n't advocate a university that would be cut off from society . |
| 24 | We felt less cut off from society as a whole and I was particularly pleased to be able to listen to good music on a regular basis . |
| 25 | When listening to unskilled workers we found that what was pre-eminent in their minds was the sense of being cut off from involvement in a product . |
| 26 | In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War . |
| 27 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
| 28 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 29 | Drawing attention to paid visits back to the home country may help to reassure the family that they will not be completely cut off from relatives and friends . |
| 30 | ‘ Women in a formal situation often have a similarly closed posture as if they are cut off from things around them , ’ says Dr Trower . |