Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 2 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 3 | And the wind drifting off from the island . |
| 4 | There is a kind of insularity at Lochranza cut off from the Corrie side by the great glens and hills of Sannox and on the other side by the long wild uninhabited coastal stretch to Catacol . |
| 5 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 6 | ‘ A thousand acres of good farmland was taken , thirty families evacuated leaving the nine families in Sesslagh and fifteen families of Farnsagh lopped off from the rest of the world . |
| 7 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 8 | Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly ! |
| 9 | One day we see not one , nor even one pair , but two pairs of sea eagles lift off from the cliffs under which we are paddling . |
| 10 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 12 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the film deploys sounds and images with intense effect as it explores the inner experience of a little girl closed off from the world , for whom her family is a cage tightened around her and preventing her from communicating with the world . |
| 14 | Having just wed , and her husband laid off from the cotton mill only four days since , her wages were now the only ones coming in , and she lived in fear of being put out of work . |
| 15 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 16 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 17 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 18 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 19 | Something glassy and indistinct passed over Rincewind 's head , throwing up a cloud of ashes from the fire , and the pig carcass took off from the spit and rocketed into the sky . |
| 20 | When the noise died down a signal gun was fired and five boats pushed off from the shore and began the race . |
| 21 | GOING : Bungy-jumping Mirrorman Wigmore takes off from the cradle 200 ft up |
| 22 | Anglian Water Authority claims that the water drawn off from the lake is still safe despite these problems because of the treatment it gives the water before it reaches people 's taps . |
| 23 | I just do not know what aircraft this was , I had never seen such a type before , but he made a very cautious circuit and then to my amazement an approach to land despite the red Very lights pooped off from the control tower . |
| 24 | He had to will the rending of his divine nature from his human nature , and die a man alone — the human Jesus cut off from the Father ; the Son denied the sustaining power of the Spirit . |
| 25 | The dots represent the angles at which pigeons flew off from the release site : the direction home is straight up ; straight down represents 180° away from home . |
| 26 | There were rumours that a pied-billed grebe had settled on ‘ Little Sea ’ , a freshwater lagoon cut off from the coast by the gradual build-up of sand dunes . |
| 27 | He dashed into the nearest shop doorway at the cab took off from the kerb again and accelerated away down the street . |
| 28 | They have taken steps to stop water draining off from the mini-lake , and done an inordinate amount of plodging in the wetland . |
| 29 | One popular route started off from the highly reactive unsaturated hydrocarbon , ethylene ( or ethene ) , H 2 C=CH 2 , which was readily and cheaply available from petroleum refineries . |
| 30 | Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar . |