Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has substantial material advantages — the ability to raise loans is greater , the opportunity for setting off and writing off business expenses are more generous and , because tax to be paid at the end of any one financial year is assessed in relation to the previous year 's results , organisations with a growing turnover have a lower effective tax rate than they would if tax were assessed on current activities . |
| 2 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 3 | AN ageing French woman ekes out a privileged life pulling off jewel heists with a decrepit sidekick . |
| 4 | Its owner admitted to us that he 'd spent the Cullifords and other people 's insurance premiums paying off company debts , but insisted he was trying to get their money back . |
| 5 | From April 1990 local authorities were allowed to spend 25 per cent of the proceeds as and when they choose , but the remaining 75 per cent must go towards paying off council debts . |
| 6 | W those with incomes below £40 a week , only 21 per cent were paying off credit transactions currently , compared with 45 per cent with incomes between £40 and £79 a week , 58 per cent between £80 and £124 a week , and 57 per cent over £125 . |
| 7 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 8 | Organizations which are in the process of implementing GIS strategies also appreciate that the ‘ ease of use ’ factor is a key control over how quickly GIS programmes can be implemented , and therefore the speed with which financial targets for paying off capital costs can be met . |
| 9 | Redundancy payments go towards paying off house mortgages , but these miners ca n't then sell up and move . |
| 10 | The orderly shrugged as he went about his task of switching off Company Shock Trooper ( Third Class ) Jason Curtis Dommer 's life support machine . |
| 11 | Never tamper with electrical fittings without first switching off mains power supply at the consumer unit . |
| 12 | switching off vacuum cleaner behind the cooker in n it ? |
| 13 | For those who were not going , however , it still was n't a day for giggling or cream buns , for showing off lunchtime shopping or for mocking the office messenger . |
| 14 | None of these had much significance for the hard-pressed businessman , struggling against his competitors at home and abroad , fighting off trade-union influence and coping with a growing volume of government-inspired social and industrial legislation . |
| 15 | ALAN McMANUS , fifth on the latest provisional world rankings , had more problems fighting off flu symptoms than coping with Jason Prince in Derby yesterday . |
| 16 | Last December , Congress charged that money set aside for cleaning up several of the 400 ‘ top-priority ’ dumps had been held up last autumn so as not to benefit local Democratic officeholders , who were fighting off Republican challengers in the November elections . |