Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a week , Shaun calls back for the full container and drops off a new one . |
| 2 | You ca n't talk about it with him because the word ‘ art ’ starts off a whole series of shocked , guilty ideas in him . |
| 3 | Galerie St Etienne starts off the new year on a somewhat lugubrious note with a show called ‘ The Dance of Death : Images of Mortality in German Art ’ . |
| 4 | A different approach is to inhibit the hormone which starts off the female sexual cycle . |
| 5 | If the Scoutmaster says a novelty plastic umbrella stand is pure elephant 's foot or if the vicar 's wife passes off a gold-plated tie-pin as the real thing , they can be held to account under law . |
| 6 | ‘ … originally the ego includes everything , later it separates off an external world from itself ’ . |
| 7 | David Frost kicks off a new series of Sunday breakfast current affairs shows by interviewing Premier John Major , Clive James hosts a new series titled Fame In The Twentieth Century , and Selina Scott will present show business and media magazine Entertainment Express . |
| 8 | IBM Corp is to supply the Norwegian government 's Supercomputing Committee with two RS/6000 PowerServer 980s and 12 Model 580 workstations linked as a cluster : hosted by the University of Oslo , the installation kicks off a three-year joint venture project between IBM and Norway 's supercomputing centre . |
| 9 | To confirm her assertion that there are radicals and revolutionaries in every corner of contemporary social life who are campaigning to overthrow the ‘ traditional ’ moral order , Mrs Whitehouse reels off a formidable list of ‘ folk devils ’ . |
| 10 | ALL AT SEA : Madge shows off a great , but unwinnable , prize |
| 11 | OLYMPIC hero Seb Coe shows off the new girl in his life … and reveals that he 's just Maddy about her . |
| 12 | England captain Will Carling , the honorary president of the Young England Club , shows off the new national kit at the club 's launch at Twickenham . |
| 13 | Ludmila Andrews ' Mad , Bad Mortal Beings is about the emotional turmoil of a black woman recovering from a relationship , and Sonali Fernando 's Shakti is a brief fable about a trash-collecting Asian woman who sees off a white yob with sort-of magic powers and struts around in funky transformed shoes . |
| 14 | In the Soviet view it marks off an entire millennium of ‘ feudalism ’ from the capitalist phase which it inaugurated . |
| 15 | Sadly , his agent , James Kirkman , fends off the futile inquirer with the enthusiasm of a royal bodyguard and indignantly informs you that Freud has only ever painted ‘ family and friends ’ . |
| 16 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 17 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
| 18 | Part road movie , part love story and part social commentary , Autobus pulls off the difficult trick of making a simple tale resonate with complex themes and emotions |
| 19 | As with size-confusion , there is no evidence that dazzle-confusion puts off a hungry lion which is close enough to experience it . |
| 20 | Anteriorly the frontal ganglion gives off a frontal nerve which passes to the clypeus , and a pair of lateral roots connect the frontal ganglion with the tritocerebrum . |
| 21 | This is a good place , too , for the mat-like camomile ‘ Treneague ’ , which gives off a strong aroma as you tread it underfoot . |
| 22 | They may both be the most humble men in Christendom , but their fiction gives off a sulphurous whiff . |
| 23 | In particular , the period drum gives off a dismal rattle that haunts the slow movement and makes the transition to the first movement recapitulation even more arresting than usual . |
| 24 | Above them , a small incense burner gives off a languid and heavy , musky scent . |
| 25 | It burns slowly when ignited and gives off a pleasing smell . |
| 26 | Enhancing its startling effect this ‘ forked tongue ’ also gives off an unpleasant , pungent odour . |
| 27 | The borrower gets the amount of this loan , minus the unpaid balance of the original one , as cash in hand , and then pays off the full number of instalments needed to pay off the full sum . |
| 28 | He is remembered chiefly for his series of twenty Organ Sonatas , but there is much more besides ; a substantial corpus of choral music , including three Requiems and no fewer than twelve Masses , two operas , a Symphony , symphonic poem , two Concertos for Organ ( once upon a time available from E. Power Biggs on a CBS LP ) and one for Piano — and a fair amount of chamber music , sixteen opus numbers in all , of which this Thorofon CD ( the least of seven ) rounds off a complete recording . |
| 29 | An excellent note by the performer rounds off a valuable issue . |
| 30 | For example , there are some very attractive red lacquered frames which could be very useful , you could choose a dark mahogany frame with a reddish tinge , or even a gold or wood frame if it sets off a dark red mount or background . |