Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 2 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 3 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 4 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 5 | Strong men fainted and were carried off by weak men … |
| 6 | Many will therefore be hived off to quango-like agencies based on the eight-county structure . |
| 7 | While Fountains Abbey , the great Gothic ruin set in beautiful parkland , could naturally be transferred to the National Trust given a suitable endowment ( who would provide the millions needed for that ? ) , and Westminster Abbey 's Chapter House could be entrusted to the Church of England , it is uncertain whether some of the less glamourous archaeological sites could be hived off to local councils without risk to their future . |
| 8 | They were frequently left out in the cold and were fobbed off with symbolic concessions — such as a tatty play space instead of a decent nursery . |
| 9 | All too often those in need of such remedies are either fobbed off with sympathetic noises or given drugs that are inappropriate and toxic . |
| 10 | East Europeans are also highly sensitive about being fobbed off with out-of-date stock — a remnant of planned economy days . |
| 11 | Do n't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians . |
| 12 | Do n't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians . |
| 13 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 14 | initiation is focused upon the lengthy constraint of boys , during which period the boys are separated off from female society , taught male solidarity , bellicosity , and endurance , and trained to accept the dominance of older groups of men ; |
| 15 | The spot has been cordoned off with orange tape . |
| 16 | For the second week they 'll be whisked off to lively Barbados , where they will stay at the Discovery Bay Hotel on the fashionable West Coast of the island . |
| 17 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 18 | Otherwise they are syphoned off into mysterious Liechtenstein trusts , or are invested in companies whose identities are kept secret . |
| 19 | The main Derby — Chesterfield road ran along the other flank and this was fenced off with rabbit-proof wire netting and was screened from the road by a long , narrow spinney . |
| 20 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 21 | It denied , however , that the reactor was one of two which had been turned off after particular criticism . |
| 22 | Thoughtful people who are not able to buy the simplistic analysis are written off with contemptuous slogans like ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you are part of the problem ’ . |
| 23 | Collected elsewhere , these might have been written off as terrestrial contamination . |
| 24 | Most reports of his single handed massacre of the Aussies sheepishly admitted he had been ‘ written off as major force ’ consigned to a bit part on cricket 's international stage . |
| 25 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 26 | Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations . |
| 27 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 28 | This is necessary because many overhead costs are not included in work in progress but are written off against current profits each year ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 29 | They can not be written off like other marginalised groups . |
| 30 | A year ago desktop publishing was being written off by professional publishers as lacking quality , control and support . |