Example sentences of "[verb] off [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clwyd factory beats off foreign rivals to expansion package |
| 2 | Camdessus also urged the industrialized countries to increase aid to the LDCs and to write off official loans to the poorest countries . |
| 3 | For many Arab people , their ambivalence about supporting Saddam Hussein is secondary to their desperate need to rid themselves of a system imposed by outside forces ; a system that enables a small ruling Arab elite to plunder the region 's resources , siphoning off cheap oil to the West , while millions of Arabs live in dire poverty , struggling to survive the economic blows dealt to the Arab nation by the West . |
| 4 | In the past , according to Mackenzie , they used to sit at opposite ends of the site firing off hostile letters to each other . |
| 5 | The suggestions put forward in the first three leaflets of the three-year campaign range from turning down the thermostat and turning off unnecessary lights to installing double glazing . |
| 6 | Despite the attempts to meet criticisms that privatization would mean selling off Romanian industry to foreign concerns , much public opposition to the law remained . |
| 7 | He harshly criticized the government , accusing it of " treasonous " mismanagement of the economy by selling off national property to foreigners at cut-rate prices in its bid to privatize state-owned companies . |
| 8 | Georgi Khizha was one of three industrialists brought into government in May 1992 as part of an attempt to buy off conservative opposition to the reformist government of Yegor Gaidar . |
| 9 | But the academic mind , and the exigencies of the academic career , have had the effect of splitting off academic approaches to literature from the ‘ reading ’ , in that word 's widest sense , of ordinary people … |
| 10 | Hiving off frail people to a fourth age is a rejection . |
| 11 | PETER ROLLINS sent off polite letters to GCHQ , MI5 , and the CIA , saying he was very interested in spying . |
| 12 | And the tally of crown successes over its opponents far outnumbers its few failures ; Douglases , Crichtons , Livingstones , Erskines , Gordons , Hamiltons and many other members of aristocratic families who lost out to the crown over a huge range of disputes , from the heights of violent conflict to the crown 's ability to beat off rival claimants to lands , would have been astonished by the belief of later historians that they were more powerful than the monarchy . |
| 13 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |
| 14 | Similarly , reception of certain stimuli , usually by specialized neuronal receptors , sets off appropriate responses to the appearance of food , a predator , or a potential mate . |
| 15 | Yet in the last few days the Romanians have started underplaying the role of Timisoara in sparking off open opposition to Ceausescu , highlighting instead the undoubtedly fearless role of the citizens of Bucharest . |
| 16 | The aim of the mass picket had been to pressurise trade union leaders to cut off essential supplies to the factory . |
| 17 | At Roosevelt 's behest , the US Commander-in-Chief , General Eisenhower , tried to force de Gaulle to back down by threatening to cut off American supplies to the French army if Giraud were removed . |
| 18 | The United States House of Representatives on June 20 voted by 410 to eight to cut off military aid to Jordan worth US$27,000,000 , pending assurances that " the government of Jordan has taken steps to advance the peace process in the Middle East " [ see p. 38119 ] . |
| 19 | WASHINGTON — The US should explore the possibility of an agreement with the Soviet Union to cut off military supplies to Afghanistan , a leading senator said in a report published yesterday , Reuter reports . |