Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also pay premiums into an endowment savings plan or pension plan — the proceeds of the endowment plan when it matures , or the cash sum at retirement from the pension plan , are used to pay off the capital at the end of the loan . |
| 2 | If you are going to pay off a debt through a prepayment meter , you should get advice from a Citizen 's Advice Bureau who will be able to negotiate with the supplier to ‘ calibrate ’ the meter to pay of any debt at a rate you can afford . |
| 3 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 4 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 5 | This especially applies to the old bucks , which have been known to kill off the younger bucks , their main rivals , for obvious reasons . |
| 6 | Fry said : ‘ Bully wo n't be sold to pay off a fine — if he is , I 'll quit . |
| 7 | Now a local Tory MP is demanding that Shire Hall be sold to pay off the authority 's massive debts . |
| 8 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 9 | For dry lining , the plasterboards used are the type with tapered edges which allow a reinforcing tape and filler to be used to finish off the joint flush with the board surface . |
| 10 | If , of course , the room is quite big , all sorts of divider devices can be used to partition off a dining area , from screens of one sort or another to large indoor plants or trees . |
| 11 | This cash can be used to pay off the loan . |
| 12 | It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) . |
| 13 | I 'm going to set off a flare . ’ |
| 14 | Nor , says Mr Imai , should they be allowed to write off the exorbitant sums they spend on promoting group-wide harmony . |
| 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 | I squirm like I 'm trying to shake off a mosquito . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not pregnant , nor do I suffer from anorexia , ’ she added frostily , ‘ I 'm trying to shake off an illness I 've had for a few months , that 's all . ’ |
| 18 | Home income schemes involved using funds obtained via a mortgage to be re-invested to pay off the loan and provide additional income . |
| 19 | More and more people are choosing to pay off the full amount on their credit cards at the end of each month — using them like charge cards to avoid interest charges . |
| 20 | A farmer has been forced to call off a bizarre attempt to charm his hop crop . |
| 21 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 22 | In one of the photographs we show the latter being used to cut off a water pipe close to the floor . |
| 23 | The poverty-stricken Spanish people were attempting to shake off the shackles and feudalism imposed mainly by the Catholic church . |
| 24 | Stockton South MP Tim Devlin says a new winter storage site may have been found for families being forced to pull off a site at Stockton by April 1 . |
| 25 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 26 | Oxfam is being urged to call off a charity pop concert because of fears it could attract thousands of travellers back to Castlemorton.Tickets are already on sale for the event although it has n't yet been granted a licence.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 27 | Down in division 3 , Hereford United are trying to shake off a run of 3 league defeats in a row . |
| 28 | Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives . |
| 29 | But he has now lost four central defenders in Wright , Pallister , Curle and Parker , while Leeds 's Tony Dorigo is struggling to shake off a knee problem . |
| 30 | ‘ My face looks as if it 's going to drop off a fruit tree , ’ he said at himself . |