Example sentences of "[verb] off by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 2 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 3 | Strong men fainted and were carried off by weak men … |
| 4 | Do n't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians . |
| 5 | Do n't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians . |
| 6 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 7 | This includes a custody area allowing police vans to off-load prisoners in an area sealed off by double doors . |
| 8 | The responsible USSR ministries were to ensure uninterrupted transport through Lithuania , especially to the major Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and to Kaliningrad , a strategically important exclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic coast , cut off by Lithuanian territory from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | So we turned up and the fellow had the opportunity , therefore , of hearing his concerto played off by little Wolfgang as if he knew it by heart … |
| 10 | A year ago desktop publishing was being written off by professional publishers as lacking quality , control and support . |
| 11 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |
| 12 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 13 | In the late eighteenth century the visionary French mathematical astronomer , the Marquis de Laplace , added some detail to Kant 's vision by proposing that the planets emerged out of the rings of cosmic dust flung off by centrifugal force from the densest part of the cloud that was to become the Sun . |
| 14 | Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event . |
| 15 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 16 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 17 | The law protects tenants from being ripped off by rack-rent thugs . |
| 18 | CO is man 's main contribution to the greenhouse effect , responsible for 55 per cent of the warming ; other important gases are methane and nitrous oxide , given off by burning fossil fuels and vegetation , and chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , which also cause ozone depletion . |
| 19 | The first thing the researchers discovered was that special infrared cameras , designed to pick up the heat given off by warm-blooded animals , failed to detect polar bears — the insulation provided by their coats is too efficient . |
| 20 | Murdock was not the first to realise that the gas given off by heated coal could be burnt . |
| 21 | Glue-sniffing means breathing in the vapours given off by certain types of glue in order to get intoxicated or ‘ high ’ , rather like getting drunk on alcohol . |
| 22 | It is pesticide-free and traps male moths by luring them on to a sticky pad with the aid of a sex attractant ( a pheromene lure capsule ) given off by female moths to attract a mate . |
| 23 | Whatever the reason , it is recognized that stressed trees then become vulnerable to further damage through drought , wind damage ( through weakened root systems ) , snow damage ( the brittle tops of trees snap beneath the weight of snow ) , frost , insects ( e.g. the bark beetle is attracted by chemicals such as terpenes given off by stressed trees ) and needle fungal and virus attack . |
| 24 | He deduced this by analyzing the way in which a-particles , which are positively charged particles given off by radioactive atoms , are deflected when they collide with atoms . |
| 25 | The main thing to prevent is a solid sheet of ice forming because it acts like a lid and prevents the escape of poisonous gases , given off by deteriorating pond vegetation . |
| 26 | The more valuable emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use or re-sale ( just as many of the outpourings of Western sympathy for the orphans and destitute of Ceauşescu 's Romania were purloined by the same fat-cats in the ministries early in 1990 after the fall of their master ) . |
| 27 | Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult as the numbers of new council houses being built have been greatly reduced in recent years , while many have been sold off by Conservative councils . |
| 28 | What may be laughed off by one child may send another into a panic of embarrassment , leaving a legacy of permanent caution in later years . |
| 29 | A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on . |
| 30 | On the negative side , the small shareholder may find himself scaled down to such a small stake that a sizeable portion of profits would be wiped off by share-dealing costs . |