Example sentences of "[verb] off the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shetland sheep are an example of a breed which has recently come off the Rare Breed Survival Trusts ' books , largely due to its popularity with small flock owners . |
| 2 | Ironically , that made England more determined than ever to pull off the stirring victory at Headingley which levelled the series . |
| 3 | All she wanted was to turn the clock back and shrug off the ghastly realisation that her marriage was not what she 'd thought it was . |
| 4 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 5 | However , Baker had to call on his years of experience to shake off the gritty Ballymena man , who made all the running , but faltered over the final ends . |
| 6 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
| 7 | He still finds it difficult to shake off the smock-and-straw image of the unintelligent country yokel and to convince those outside the industry of his skill and versatility . |
| 8 | He walked away quickly , trying to shake off the unnerving effect of the encounter . |
| 9 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 10 | ‘ Send off the personal quotation request or phone direct on 0483 754 500 ’ |
| 11 | send off the completed form and affidavit , your marriage certificate and either the court fee or a completed form claiming exemption from the court fee ( this form comes with the application ) . |
| 12 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
| 13 | Galerie St Etienne starts off the new year on a somewhat lugubrious note with a show called ‘ The Dance of Death : Images of Mortality in German Art ’ . |
| 14 | In truth , Diana got on rather well with Adeane , who introduced her to many of the women she accepted as her ladies-in-waiting while she was an enthusiastic matchmaker , continually trying to pair off the difficult bachelor with unattached ladies . |
| 15 | The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It would be misleading therefore , effectively to write off the outer circle of kin as significant sources of support in British society . |
| 18 | Depreciation is to be calculated on the straight line basis to write off the net book value of fixed assets over their expected useful lives at the following annual rates , starting from the month that the asset was purchased . |
| 19 | Nor , says Mr Imai , should they be allowed to write off the exorbitant sums they spend on promoting group-wide harmony . |
| 20 | We shall finish off the two-cylinder problem by working out the capacitance when b/a>1 on the basis of eqns ( 2.79 ) and ( 2.80 ) . |
| 21 | In this instance , you must finish off the raw edge of the hem either by overcasting or , for a really professional finish , by binding it with a fine bias binding . |
| 22 | These pins are used to hold the coils on the board ; snip off the odd pin on that side of the bobbin which has three pins . |
| 23 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 24 | He fended off the awkward questions diplomatically . |
| 25 | Then we run tepid water and wash off the dried blood . |
| 26 | President Franois Mitterrand , answering viewers ' questions in a television appearance yesterday , warned against writing off the Socialist Party as dead and said the first aim must be to reunite it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 29 | For Henry VI 's death released anti-imperialist forces , anxious to ward off the imperial regime in Italy . |
| 30 | 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 . |