Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] by [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collapse of the East African Economic Community in 1976 had damaging effects on foreign investors by cutting off important local markets . |
| 2 | Two Phillips & Drew analysts , for example , have just shown how Coloroll ‘ created ’ its 1988–89 profits by writing off the goodwill on the Crowther carpet acquisition — the very buy that broke its back . |
| 3 | Most Iraqis share his conviction that , although Iraq started the war , it served the interests of all Arabs by fighting off the Persian onslaught . |
| 4 | Prosperous peasants , furthermore , were unable to become independent agents by paying off their debts quickly . |
| 5 | But we should at least notice how the new emphasis on the negative part of conventionalism deflates the hypothesis I mentioned earlier , that the negative part supports the political ideal of protected expectations by marking off cases in which that ideal can not be satisfied . |
| 6 | At the top of the boom the group 's worldwide housing business made only £35m ; in 1991 it wiped out years of British housebuilding profits by writing off £25m against just one housing estate — the St Mary Abbots luxury development in Kensington . |
| 7 | We were not the first and I am sure we will not be the last to respond to financial pressures by selling off rare books . |