Example sentences of "[noun pl] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 2 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 3 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 4 | You can never be too early starting your kids off on the right foot — in fact , it 's essential |
| 5 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 6 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 7 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 8 | Hats off to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital for introducing a new scheme which means no parents will have to take their new baby home from the maternity unit without a proper infant carrier . |
| 9 | ‘ I took three weeks off with the first . ’ |
| 10 | And then we 've got the young cattle off to the two places on the other side of the island and then the third place at just last year . |
| 11 | The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment . |
| 12 | Most people imagine that the Inquisition terrorised the population , swooping like the Gestapo on wide-eyed villagers , dragging old women with black cats off to the nearest duck-pond to be drowned as witches . |
| 13 | In order to persuade us to carry our cats off to the nearest surgery for ‘ altering ’ , the many benefits of the operation are extolled at length . |
| 14 | Few now want to follow Philadelphia 's lead and cut museums off from the public purse altogether — a policy that would surely up-end the Met 's unrivalled success at striking the right balance between showbiz and the unworldly . |
| 15 | We can not expect pupils to learn the sophistication necessary for handling difficult concepts if we constantly draw a veil over them and shut pupils off from the real debate . |
| 16 | Several hours later Sten found a warden who sailed out to the island and dropped the guys off on the nearest bit of mainland . |
| 17 | She could put all but the most essential tasks off until the next day , or the next , and did it all the time . |
| 18 | AS EACH day ticks off before the crucial announcement on Friday next week from Eurotunnel , the share price falls . |