Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [be] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mines were going off too early , but aniseed balls placed between contacts proved effective , for aniseed balls dissolve at a constant rate no matter what the temperature . |
| 2 | In this case , the shareholders are passing off some risk on to the manager . |
| 3 | There are only two thousand still alive in the city , and the survivors are dying off daily . |
| 4 | So in the presence of a sustained stimulus , here , which is lasting around two milliseconds , the channels are switching off with a time constant of what around half a millisecond . |
| 5 | If you were at Gatwick recently and wondered why all the planes were taking off and landing on the taxi-way , well it was all because of Rentokil Hygiene . |
| 6 | We were very fortunate but I do remember the guns used to go off and I , when my so my son was born the , the guns were going off all the time from the castle . |
| 7 | The wheels are coming off , if you ask me . |
| 8 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 9 | who moved as if the soles were flapping off . |
| 10 | The waiting in the wings was paying off . |
| 11 | The pupils are heading off to America next summer for the World Cup and the Norman Whiteside All Stars XI game is one of a number of fund raising exercises planned . |
| 12 | But it believes the numbers are levelling off . |
| 13 | And all the exits are clearing off ? |
| 14 | After two or three minutes , by which time the typists were switching off and covering up their machines , Alan emerged from his office and handed Sylvia a cassette . |
| 15 | Whether all the cards were running off . |