Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The not inconsiderable amount of time clients spend in hospital and campus services without supervision in part reflects the option for clients to wander off into the dormitories unnoticed . |
| 2 | Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic . |
| 3 | At this year 's Chelsea Flower show , a group of prisoners walked off with a silver medal for a garden display.And at the prison itself , they 've been busy creating borders and features that have turned a jail into an oasis of colour . |
| 4 | The probation service 's task in prison is primarily to provide a social work service to those imprisoned and there has always been a conflict between the day-to-day , mundane but pressing needs of prisoners cut off from family and friends , and the more reflective analytical and purposeful work related to offending behaviour in which Probation Officers wanted to engage . |
| 5 | The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas . |
| 6 | Clusters of signs pointed off down endless bleak , echoing passageways : PATHOLOGY . |
| 7 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 8 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 9 | In evolutionary game theory , we imagine a population of animals pairing off at random and playing this game . |
| 10 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 11 | The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway . |
| 12 | As the phrase suggests , a main trunk of cables splits off into branches which supply individual subscribers . |
| 13 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 14 | In practice , it is more difficult , because the effectiveness of advertisements falls off with frequency of exposure in a particular paper , so you have to be very careful that you are comparing like with like . |
| 15 | But this was one of those large , Victorian houses than seem to have endless flights of stairs leading off from each level . |
| 16 | Some executives of the company wanted to expand into the travel business , but in 1900 the testy head of American Express , James Congdell Fargo , was still adamantly against it , ‘ I will not have gangs of trippers starting off in charabancs from in front of our offices the way they do from Cooks ’ , he stormed . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid a lot of bits fell off during the '80s . |
| 18 | A FLOTILLA of rafts sailed off down the Mersey to take part in a charity contest at the weekend . |
| 19 | The disclosures , which follow a fortnight of leaks sparked off by the Guardian 's revelation of the sweeteners scandal — show how far Lord Young was prepared to go to sell Rover to the private sector . |
| 20 | Wave after wave of starlings take off at short 2–3 minute intervals , with a great roar of whirring wings . |
| 21 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 22 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 23 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 24 | A harem owner may have several sets of daughters creamed off in this way . |
| 25 | Nevertheless in the early days many of the other forms of bacteria died off in vast numbers . |
| 26 | the number of consumers cut off for non-payment rose to 21.286 in 1991/92 — an increase of 177% from the previous year . |
| 27 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 28 | But as the complex and delicate process unravelled , with hormones triggered off like the unlocking of a set of combination locks in a vast bank vault , it emerged how unlike a precious gem the ovum is . |
| 29 | ’ We will be building cables with ducts leading off to every house , which can easily be connected if they want the service . ’ |
| 30 | Other ties , with games kicking off at 2 p.m. unless stated , are : |