Example sentences of "[noun] off [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to banning , delaying or censoring news and current affairs reports ( ibid. ) , the British government and military officials have used a variety of sanctions , notably cutting journalists off from authoritative sources of information , to ensure that recalcitrant individuals and institutions are brought back into line ( Aleut , 1978:153 ) . |
| 2 | When weaker labelling made grain counts necessary , a cut off of 6 grains or more was used to define labelling . |
| 3 | When inputting answers , lower case ( ‘ small letters ’ ) must be used — turn CAPS LOCK light off by pressing CAPS LOCK key once , and leave it off . |
| 4 | Almost all of them are found in regrowth , e.g. species of Cecropia and Piper , where the chewing off of competing plants is important . |
| 5 | Things like how not to mouth off about any ideas you might have . |
| 6 | To compare the total realisable value of stocks with the total cost could result in an unacceptable setting off of foreseeable losses against unrealised profits . |
| 7 | The disposal of run off from most types of terrace needs careful construction of a system of drains and channels usually designed on the basis of calculations ( or informed guesses ) on the probability of the intensity and duration of storms . |
| 8 | Maybe what I 'm saying is the only sure-fire , tried and tested way to get a girl 's knickers off in thirty seconds — which , by the way , it is . |
| 9 | After a goal-less first half , the game burst into life with a goal and a sending off inside three minutes . |
| 10 | That does n't really grasp the point , but it sets Bernard off on another low-fi tirade against ‘ jump up and down bands ’ becoming part of the mainstream and generally bringing the whole world down : ‘ I could imagine Revolver being on Top Of The Pops , but I could n't imagine David Bowie being on , ’ he seethes , delicately . |
| 11 | ‘ My game was just a little bit off in all departments . |
| 12 | Following the killings a military order was issued closing the Strip off for three days . |
| 13 | But , after speaking to Sunil 's tutor , they have agreed to the Leeds boy paying his debts off in weekly instalments . |
| 14 | The club were served with the winding-up order on Saturday despite an offer to pay the debts off in several payments . |
| 15 | He could hear vehicles moving along the road , dropping storm-troopers off at regular intervals as they started to search the forest . |
| 16 | According to them I have had four weeks off in ten years . |
| 17 | The BBC 's vigorous prosecution of its commercial ends in this way is in stark contrast to such acts as the closing of The Listener , the selling off of irreplaceable books from its library and the closing of the Open University studios . |
| 18 | If more people bothered to bring decently designed office furniture to the attention of their office manager , fewer people would be taking days off with bad backs . |
| 19 | Jim Gardiner made the breakthrough in the first half , then Roddy Collins and Michael Cash finished things off with further goals in the last ten minutes . |
| 20 | It needs very little provocation to start Shelley off on such topics , or Albé either — he particularly enjoys vampire stories . |
| 21 | Yeah , but it says do n't take the top off for twelve days , when did I la , when did it come out |
| 22 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 23 | fred Lansdown clocks off after 43 years |
| 24 | This was the highest-level Soviet-Israeli meeting since the breaking off of diplomatic relations in 1967 . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most remarkable example of self-mutilation that inflicts pain on the attacker is the breaking off of poisonous papillae by various kinds of sea slugs . |
| 26 | If you became very dehydrated , still feel tired and edgy , the Association points to China Off for 10 days . |
| 27 | Cut a slice from the top of each fruit , then cut the peel and pith off in vertical strips to reveal the flesh . |
| 28 | In year 5 , demand levels off at 3,500 units — the firm , though , already has the thirty-five machines necessary to meet this demand and so no new investment is necessary . . |
| 29 | uses now the reason we need , not just nuclear power of course , but all other sources of energy er is erm illustrated by these next couple of slides erm I 'm sure you 've seen data like this before growth in the world 's population over the last er few hundred years erm over the middle ages the er world 's population was fairly stable , although the birth rate was high er the death rate was equally high because of things like cholera and bubonic plague and smallpox and other things that used to kill people off in large numbers . |
| 30 | Artificial gravity off in five seconds . |