Example sentences of "[noun] off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 2 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 3 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
| 7 | On a difficult pitch Witney played some very attractive football , and with a little more luck could have finished the game off in the first half . |
| 8 | The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment . |
| 9 | Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true . |
| 10 | But c c can we take er start off in the top top left hand corner of the clock face , which in fact is er Mr 's number three where he s he says the A fifty nine , the area astride the A fifty nine and B twelve twenty four within Harrogate d district . |
| 11 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
| 12 | Streamers of smoke and ash streaked the night sky , obliterating most of the stars , though one of Karkason 's egg-shaped moons shone through , reproducing its image some way off in the shiny lava as an illusory silver pool , a distorted cool medallion . |