Example sentences of "[be] [verb] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 2 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 3 | Diplomatic relations between Czechoslovakia and the Vatican had been restored on April 19 , having been broken off in 1950 . |
| 4 | Amid the resumption of trade and consular relations with various East European countries , diplomatic relations with Hungary , which had been broken off in 1973 , were resumed on Jan. 11 , 1990 , and with Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union on March 11 . |
| 5 | Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 . |
| 6 | Guatemala and the Soviet Union on Jan. 4 signed an agreement at the UN headquarters in New York re-establishing diplomatic relations which had been broken off in 1947 . |
| 7 | They had been broken off in 1946 following the sinking of two British frigates off Corfu ; on Albania 's refusal to pay compensation , the UK refused to hand over Albanian gold ( currently estimated to be worth US$18,000,000 ) seized by the Nazis during the Second World War and held in trust by the UK ever since . |
| 8 | It seems as if the top 10 firms are walking off with all the prizes these days — literally . |
| 9 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 10 | Lenin wishes to explain why it was that although the ‘ peaceful mask ’ of capitalism had been torn off in all the countries of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century , and popular discontent was widespread , it was only in Russia that a successful revolution occurred . |
| 11 | The Ossis have been fobbed off with one middling portfolio , transport , and two lightweight ones . |
| 12 | Had the recession been staved off for longer , support for the Scottish Nationalists — now at 31 p.c. in the polls and only seven points behind Labour — might not have been as strong . |
| 13 | initiation is focused upon the lengthy constraint of boys , during which period the boys are separated off from female society , taught male solidarity , bellicosity , and endurance , and trained to accept the dominance of older groups of men ; |
| 14 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 15 | Thoughtful people who are not able to buy the simplistic analysis are written off with contemptuous slogans like ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you are part of the problem ’ . |
| 16 | This is necessary because many overhead costs are not included in work in progress but are written off against current profits each year ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 17 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 18 | Collected elsewhere , these might have been written off as terrestrial contamination . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 21 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 22 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 23 | It denied , however , that the reactor was one of two which had been turned off after particular criticism . |
| 24 | The spot has been cordoned off with orange tape . |
| 25 | Then without warning a green flare exploded , which had to have been shot off by one of the fishermen . |
| 26 | Otherwise they are syphoned off into mysterious Liechtenstein trusts , or are invested in companies whose identities are kept secret . |
| 27 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 28 | Yeah , well we 're starting off round first , we have a drink in |
| 29 | ( You can still buy one cheap in the car park round the corner from Victoria as they 're auctioned off by young Ozzers looking for the fare home . ) |
| 30 | When you go and buy your ticket and you 're setting off on that day |