Example sentences of "[be] [verb] off [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antoine Becquerel ( 1852–1908 ) observed that similar rays are given off by uranium . |
| 2 | Diplomatic relations with the USA had been broken off after World War II , following Albanian suspicions that attempts were being made to subvert the communist regime of Enver Hoxha , who had taken power in 1944 ; relations with the Soviet Union were severed in 1961 following ideological disputes . |
| 3 | Crops are harvested almost without sweat , boats set off on journeys with full sails , celebrations are carried off with style and decorum . |
| 4 | Decommissioning work began four years ago … but only now can the outside world tell the difference as giant pipes are lifted off by crane . |
| 5 | Remember also , the pitfalls for children of ‘ tickly ’ yarns ( I hate that jumper , it tickles ) , of necks being too tight ( I 'll never wear that thing again ) when ears have almost been severed off at bedtime ! |
| 6 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 7 | What is confusing about locality is the romance attached to the concept which implies that remote governments have somehow been thrust off by street corner society . |
| 8 | He found a place in sight of one of the park 's two lakes where a small plantation of young trees had been fenced off for protection . |
| 9 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
| 10 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 11 | This is their first high-profile UK release and a very good place to start if you 're cheesed off with squeak-core . |
| 12 | except then if you 're writing off for money to places like Telecom and it 's a national logo |
| 13 | that area is reddish anyway , when you 'll , and they 've been washed you see , they 've been rinsed off in water , to get all the muck off , and then put in bags of ten cos when you touch them you get all this red stuff all on you , red muck , |
| 14 | If you have used any oil in foreplay , make sure these are cleaned off before intercourse . |
| 15 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
| 16 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's true this is the first time all but one of the World Cup downhills have been called off before Christmas and , with the Madonna slalom cancelled , that 's unique . ’ |
| 18 | Doing it for real : forget well-toned bodies and cute faces , America 's home porn addicts are getting off on sex between Mr and Mrs Average ( and we mean average ) |
| 19 | Many should have been laid off from work as a consequence of the government 's deflationary policies . |
| 20 | The sun 's rays are shining off into space like that . |
| 21 | Volumes are physically separate ; parts and chapters are labelled as such ; paragraphs are marked off by indentation and are visible without reading the words . |
| 22 | But Mr Way said it will not be long before Vauxhall workers are laid off for part of the week because of the company 's dependency on its export market . |
| 23 | To facilitate the mass launch , most of Wasp 's Wildcats had to be flown off to loiter overhead . |
| 24 | The trading lobby were not to be fobbed off with talk like that . |
| 25 | These pronouncements were not necessarily written down and so they might be carried off into oblivion by the winds of time . |
| 26 | ‘ Better hurry , or they 'll soon be knocking off for lunch . ’ |
| 27 | In autumn 1941 the German advance into Russia , which had begun so spectacularly , ground to halt on the approach to Moscow , and a disastrous retreat in the icy wastes of the Russian winter could only be staved off with difficulty and at high human cost , leaving an ill-equipped army to endure the arctic conditions . |
| 28 | The length of the cable then rests on the staples and can always be lifted off for painting and cleaning . |
| 29 | For a start , this will mean cars wo n't have to be driven into concrete blocks at 30mph , or be written off in seatbelt anchorage tests , saving the cost of at least two expensive prototypes . |
| 30 | The third component should be written off against profit if it represents an overpayment or transferred to reserves if an underpayment . |