Example sentences of "[noun] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 2 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 3 | Secondly , the zone of tension between the Soviet Union and the West allowed national liberation movements to play one side off against the other : on the one hand , fear of ‘ communism ’ induced some colonial powers to make political concessions , while on the other the Soviet Union often provided political support , arms and training to these movements . |
| 4 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 5 | I might add , very briefly , I mean this is a spin off of the traditional aircraft situation , where they 're being used |
| 6 | ‘ If he blows his mouth off before the Wee GP , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm for castration . |
| 7 | She dropped a sulky David off at the Grand Hotel . |
| 8 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 9 | You can never be too early starting your kids off on the right foot — in fact , it 's essential |
| 10 | DeFreitas and Malcolm finished Pakistan off with the new ball , Botham bagging his 120th catch and spoiling his chance to go ahead of Cowdrey when Waqar ( 0 ) edged Lewis . |
| 11 | In defence of the faith , in defence of his crown , he had no choice but to stand rigidly upon the law , but every cutting off of the least citizen was a maiming of his own nation and his own body , and he found no remedy against the grief and horror into which his own procedures cast him . |
| 12 | The Bush Administration sent the whole issue off to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in December last year . |
| 13 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 14 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 15 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 16 | A trial off along the latter having a unpromising appearance was soon stopped . |
| 17 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 18 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 19 | Hats off to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital for introducing a new scheme which means no parents will have to take their new baby home from the maternity unit without a proper infant carrier . |
| 20 | Kirk finds God in the slightly rubbish STAR TREK V : THE FINAL FRONTIER and Jane Fonda gets her kit off for the evil Duran Duran in groovy pop-art romp BARBARELLA . |
| 21 | Watch your timing as you play this and make sure that you cut each chord off at the correct time . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 23 | Start a Shuttle and a space walker off in the same direction and at the same speed , and they stay together following exactly the same path round the Earth . |
| 24 | Was that smudge off to the left the island of Ibiza ? |
| 25 | ‘ I took three weeks off with the first . ’ |
| 26 | MORE than 12 months after the closure of the Corporate Wardrobe and the selling off of the entire stock in a giant sale , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director Bob McInnes is still searching for a solution to the uniform issue . |
| 27 | Then Satan scented water off to the left and swung in that direction . |
| 28 | In the next attack Toman again ran at the defence and laid the ball off for the supporting Les McJannet ten yards out , but the full back was denied by a last ditch tackle . |
| 29 | Hand 's team , however , replied impressively seven minutes later when Maskell , transfer-listed at his own request after scoring 33 goals last season , scored his first of this , Cecere laying the ball off to the ambitious young man whose crisp drive was a powerful argument for a rise in status . |
| 30 | And then we 've got the young cattle off to the two places on the other side of the island and then the third place at just last year . |