Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [prep] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what better way to sever an unwanted tie than by disappearing off on business for a couple of weeks ? |
| 2 | When the engine is hot and if I stop the engine for up to half an hour I get a smell of petrol in the cab and upon setting off again I experience severe fuel starvation causing the engine to stop unless travelling fast on an open road . |
| 3 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) Subsection ( 1 ) applies to the following civil proceedings in the High Court , namely — ( a ) proceedings for infringement of rights pertaining to any intellectual property or for passing off ; ( b ) proceedings brought to obtain disclosure of information relating to any infringement of such rights or to any passing off ; and ( c ) proceedings brought to prevent any apprehended infringement of such rights or any apprehended passing off . |
| 5 | This growth was achieved mainly by diplomacy and by playing off , at the appropriate times , the contending powers of the Slav kingdoms — the Byzantines , the Venetians and the Turks . |