Example sentences of "[verb] off [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vauxhall beat off worldwide competition for the engine plant contract . |
| 2 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 3 | THE final £5bn tranche of the Government 's BT holding will be sold off next year for certain . |
| 4 | The gelding had already struck three times out of four in novice events , two at Kempton , before going off 5/2 favourite for the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 5 | The cell 's steel door was then closed , shutting off all ventilation for those detained inside . |
| 6 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 7 | Charity knew she was n't going to look gorgeous no matter what she did , and deciding she needed all the help she could get to lure in those tips that might hold off personal bankruptcy for three months , she had purchased the skirt and shirt — with six other summery , playful outfits that she would probably never be able to wear again as long as she lived . |
| 8 | HULL 'S Welsh prop Mark Jones , sent off last weekend for striking Warrington 's Gary Tees , has escaped a ban after a disciplinary hearing in Leeds . |
| 9 | HULL 'S giant Welsh prop Mark Jones , sent off last weekend for striking Warrington 's Gary Tees , last night escaped a ban after a disciplinary hearing in Leeds . |
| 10 | For the 23-year-old Liverpool woman had to beat off strong competition for the post from dozens of other candidates from around the world . |
| 11 | The firm is part of a consortium trying to beat off global competition for the Hong Kong airport deal which is worth three times as much as the channel tunnel . |
| 12 | Oxford Medical has fought off worldwide competition for a major slice of the lucrative American market where health is big business . |
| 13 | She stood up with total aplomb , and carried off first prize for her rendering of a " Purple Pussycat " . |
| 14 | FORMER England goalkeeper Peter Shilton was sent off last night for the first time in his long career . |
| 15 | The debate over 1990 funding for the NEA , and Jesse Helms 's attempts to cut off federal funding for art that he and the fundamentalist lobby find obscene , continues . |
| 16 | After 1956 — the year in which the government had tried and failed to cut off Arab support for the FLN in the ill-fated Anglo-French Suez expedition — there had been a growing perception , both in Paris and among the general public , that these dilemmas were not likely to be resolved by short-lived coalition governments of the kind that the Fourth Republic produced . |