Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] off [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , we are at the New Athenaeum Theatre at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where New Moves is presenting the Vicente Saez company from Spain , the first of three European groups to round off a superb season of dance . |
| 2 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 3 | Finally Cadette stepped in with two goals to round off a marvellous display . |
| 4 | It is a daunting sight : a seventeen-foot drop through a complex arrangement of boulders , holes , standing waves , scissor waves , and lateral waves rebounding off a sheer wall on the right . |
| 5 | Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets . |
| 6 | The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind . |
| 7 | TOYOTA 'S first cars rolled off a new assembly line in Derbyshire yesterday — as Ford announced 1,180 job losses . |
| 8 | By contrast , as Collins ( 1975 ) points out , more literary styles trade off an essential ambiguity . |
| 9 | The main requirement , that O&Y first raises enough funds to pay off a separate commercial paper programme , will be met within the next day or two . |
| 10 | As a point of reference it will be assumed that for a supernova collapse the gravitational waves carry off a total energy of in a burst of milliseconds length and at a frequency of about I kHz . |
| 11 | Three of a kind … models show off the latest range of styles which will be on display at the Tesco and RSCPA Cruelty Free show at London 's Regents College in London this weekend Picture : DAVID GILES |
| 12 | They are identical in the same way that the articles coming off a well-engineered assembly line are identical . |
| 13 | The burning heather curls gave off a bright , intense heat but burned quickly , and they each took their turn at collecting a pile so the fire could be kept going through part of the night at least . |
| 14 | Fine-slatted Venetian blinds show off the tall sash windows , which are too elegant to be obscured by curtains . |
| 15 | Fearful of protests or violence by citizens outraged by the army 's brutal assault on Tiananmen on 4 June , armed troops cordoned off a large area of central Peking , admitting only hand-picked spectators into the square . |
| 16 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 17 | A few emergency circuits gave off a faint glow . |
| 18 | There are a lot of things I 'd love to see — and when things cool off a little bit I 'll definitely go . |
| 19 | Had they then found the resources to pull off an improbable win against Hong Kong it would have drastically altered the fairness of the tournament . |
| 20 | These treatments kill off the tiny worms in the large intestine but because the eggs may still be around for a while , everyone must be scrupulous about scrubbing their nails and ultra-hygienic when handling food . |
| 21 | THE Prime Minister yesterday ordered Jacques Delors to increase his efforts to head off a catastrophic transatlantic trade war . |
| 22 | The adrenaline makes her giggle , and still rising noradrenaline levels set off the familiar beat of passion . |
| 23 | By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement . |
| 24 | An agency is not a sort of plate-glass fun-palace in which bejeaned intellectuals dash off a few lapidary phrases in praise of Surf or Oxo between polishing the rhyme schemes of their latest book of sonnets or ( more likely ) the lyrics of the next chart-topper . |
| 25 | On the one hand we have the beguiling image of independent DNA replicators , skipping like chamois , free and untrammelled down the generations , temporarily brought together in throwaway survival machines , immortal coils shuffling off an endless succession of mortal ones as they forge towards their separate eternities . |
| 26 | The rooms gave off a dark upper hallway where an old man slept on a bench in his underwear . |
| 27 | In a new departure , EPLF gunboats attacked and set fire to a Polish freighter off the Eritrean Red Sea coast on Jan. 3 ; they seized the 30-strong crew and fired rockets to drive off a second Polish freighter which attempted to come to their aid . |
| 28 | Nenna and the two girls shook off a certain teatime drowsiness and went back on deck , where they stood astounded . |
| 29 | Built circa 1880 , bits drop off the outside and have to be caught in a wire net hung over the door . |
| 30 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |