Example sentences of "[verb] off the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 2 | Granted , if socialists merely develop a list of pat answers to these questions ( nationalisation , ‘ planning ’ ) while failing to fight for more immediately realisable socialist gains outside of government they will not get much of a hearing , but equally to write off the macroeconomic questions as too difficult to speculate about is to forego the right to contest the policies of a reactionary national government . |
| 3 | Nor , says Mr Imai , should they be allowed to write off the exorbitant sums they spend on promoting group-wide harmony . |
| 4 | He fended off the awkward questions diplomatically . |
| 5 | To ward off the smothering tendencies of the bishops , permanent secretaries and dons , the Prime Minister had a shifting circle of advisers to protect her , and another group who would replenish the fund of radical ideas . |
| 6 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 7 | Once it became possible to lower a patient 's blood pressure substantially , it was not merely of academic interest to know whether the raised blood pressure was really ‘ essential ’ , that is necessary to maintain a sufficient flow of blood through narrowed arteries to vital organs , and , if it was , whether modest treatment ( to ward off the obvious hazards of strokes or heart failure ) could be tolerated . |
| 8 | Our breath made huge clouds of steam which hid our faces as we talked , and we hopped about and shrugged elaborately to ward off the penetrating fingers of cold that probed at our necks and hands . |
| 9 | Cut off the two inches , or better still four , add forty quids ' worth of ‘ body wave ’ and it 's ‘ My word , you do look well . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’ |
| 11 | In the summer , blues and pinks predominate but there are always plenty of white flowers , especially the white forms of cosmos and Campanula persicifolia , to set off the other colours . |
| 12 | A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants . |
| 13 | These treatments kill off the tiny worms in the large intestine but because the eggs may still be around for a while , everyone must be scrupulous about scrubbing their nails and ultra-hygienic when handling food . |
| 14 | Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets . |
| 15 | The uphill fairways kill off the old boys . |
| 16 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 17 | In Somerset , the old drove-ways still branch off the main routes into the moors , like spines on a stickleback . |
| 18 | ‘ Lay off the one-word questions , will you ? |
| 19 | This especially applies to the old bucks , which have been known to kill off the younger bucks , their main rivals , for obvious reasons . |
| 20 | His grandfather had explained that the only true way to bake bread was to burn it black and then rasp off the burnt extremities with a coarse file . |
| 21 | Darting Grimm a cautioning glance , Jaq paid off the hired guards in local Voronovs , plus a retainer so that they would continue on call if need be . |
| 22 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 23 | Pigs are sandwiched between rhinos and hippos in the encyclopedia , and kick off the even-toed ungulates — ‘ The most spectacular and diverse array of large , land-dwelling mammals alive today . ’ |
| 24 | Just this morning the Home Office showed off the empty premises following a five million pound refit of the former youth custody centre . |
| 25 | The Pacific boundary-line would then pass to the seaward of Tonga and Fiji , curve back westwards to New Guinea , head north and east through Guam and Iwo Jima ; pass off the eastern shores of the Japanese chain , head up to Kamchatka and rejoin the North American continent off the Aleutians . |
| 26 | Corbett and Ranulf finished off the meagre scraps of food they had begged from the kitchen and hurried down . |
| 27 | The fleas ' eggs are laid in the nest and once hatched the fleas feed off the young rabbits . |
| 28 | Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits . |
| 29 | Willie pulled off the weighted shoes and stood in the dark hallway shivering helplessly , his teeth rattling inside his clamped jaw . |
| 30 | Trim off the lower leaves when taking stem-tip cuttings of heliotrope . |