Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks . |
| 2 | Meninga , it must be said , did not look like a man under undue pressure as he genially fended press questions yesterday , even laughing off a suggestion from one of his braver interlocuters that his weight had recently ballooned . |
| 3 | Because over-heating the gilding will ruin the finish , this stage is not carried to the extent of driving off every trace of mercury , so some evidence of the plating technique is left . |
| 4 | Actually it was a primitive attempt at passing off a filler as a science programme . |
| 5 | Before the Fijians had scored , Townsend had essayed a daring cut , but the pass to Stark was delayed over-long , while in the second-half , before the Fijians could build on their 14-0 interval advantage , Stark was the recipient of possession in some space which he embellished by brushing off a couple of tackles , only then to run crossfield into trouble . |
| 6 | Deflation in the United Kingdom began with the ‘ July measures ’ of 1966 aimed at staving off a devaluation of sterling . |
| 7 | It had also lost around £300,000 pounds and was staving off a visit from the official receiver . |
| 8 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 9 | In the end the Baa-Baas won 25–15 with Ofahengaue rounding off a move right at the death . |
| 10 | Have you ever tried the traditional approach of snapping off a bottle 's neck ? |
| 11 | if you live in Europe ’ — writing off a hemisphere . |
| 12 | So do n't end up writing off a debt which you could have avoided by paying attention to the obvious right under your own nose — use the information that is available to you . |
| 13 | Writing off a lease |
| 14 | But this difficulty was not necessarily insurmountable and certainly does not justify writing off the Duke as a political lightweight . |
| 15 | Digital Communications Associates Inc has reported a third quarter net loss of $66.6m after a pre-tax charge of $59.9m from writing off the goodwill in its Pacific Data Products unit and $3.2m from the costs of reorganising that company , and $3.2m from settlement of a class action lawsuit , and a tax credit of $583,000 , against a profit last time of $6.0m on turnover that rose 8.9% at $55.7m ; net loss for the nine months was $58.0m against profit last time of $13.3m on turnover up 9.0% at $104.4m . |
| 16 | Net profit after writing off the goodwill associated with acquisitions dropped further , by 16.9% to $15.1m . |
| 17 | Two Phillips & Drew analysts , for example , have just shown how Coloroll ‘ created ’ its 1988–89 profits by writing off the goodwill on the Crowther carpet acquisition — the very buy that broke its back . |
| 18 | If you work for a company which insists that you drive a particular brand of car , resign , first writing off the car in an accident in which two teenage hookers and a hallucinating macaw reach a rather untimely end . |
| 19 | We have become accustomed to writing off the engineering industry as one of the casualties in the reshaping of British industry during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 20 | Brian came home because Daddy could n't stand the thought of him hanging off a cliff . |
| 21 | It 's also a doddle to lay ; Ethernet uses a linear bus , which means that network stations are connected to a single cable a bit like electric sockets hanging off a mains cable . |
| 22 | The meaning struck him like smoke touching off a fire alarm . |
| 23 | If we ca n't blend Rocky in smoothly , I do n't see how we 'd manage to blend Gazza without pissing off a number of players . |
| 24 | At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground . |
| 25 | Then Comrade President Thomas Sankara stepping off a plane , during a state visit , inspects a row of soldiers and salutes a flag . |
| 26 | The very last thing you want when stepping off a train at Rotherham station is to be confronted by a Romulan death squad . |
| 27 | Minor offences , e.g. stepping off a pavement or shouting ‘ scab ’ activities generally tolerated in industrial disputes — were sometimes used as the pretext for an arrest . |
| 28 | Egypt and Syria have a smaller stake in the war , but they also have sound pragmatic reasons for seeing off a rival . |
| 29 | Firing off a writ or an unfair dismissal application may make you feel better for a little while , but you should think carefully before launching yourself into a full-scale battle . |
| 30 | Robinson begin by rattling off a handful of saccharine songs that sound like little more than fast-paced lift music . |