Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun prp] [vb past] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports that electricity charges would go up by 13% in April set off a furore in the press . |
| 2 | Their defeat by Hong Kong in May sparked off serious disturbances in the streets of Beijing , with Japanese cars and taxis being overturned and foreigners attacked . |
| 3 | The assassinations in Tunis sparked off angry protest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , in defiance of widespread curfews imposed by the Israeli occupying authorities . |
| 4 | An engineer at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania set off radiation alarms as he ‘ walked into work ’ . |
| 5 | • Car sales in Japan levelled off in September after months of continued growth . |
| 6 | Last year 's attempts by the BJP to build a Hindu temple on the disputed site of a mosque in Ayodhya sparked off murderous riots across the nation . |
| 7 | Because the idiots in Berlin cut off our supply . |
| 8 | Three days ago , a 400lb bomb which destroyed the Stewarts supermarket in Derriaghy went off just 15 minutes after what the terrorists had claimed was a 45-minute warning . |
| 9 | The arrival of Christianity in Birka sparked off one of the sternest tussles between Christianity and paganism anywhere in this period . |
| 10 | Iskandarov 's Islamic coalition had survived an attempted coup in October by supporters of the former communist President Rakhmon Nabiyev , whose removal from power in September sparked off a smouldering civil war [ see pp. 39097-98 ; 39147 ] . |