Example sentences of "[vb past] off by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This includes a custody area allowing police vans to off-load prisoners in an area sealed off by double doors . |
| 2 | So we turned up and the fellow had the opportunity , therefore , of hearing his concerto played off by little Wolfgang as if he knew it by heart … |
| 3 | In the late eighteenth century the visionary French mathematical astronomer , the Marquis de Laplace , added some detail to Kant 's vision by proposing that the planets emerged out of the rings of cosmic dust flung off by centrifugal force from the densest part of the cloud that was to become the Sun . |
| 4 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 5 | A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on . |
| 6 | The Rushdie affair , touched off by Muslim reactions to the publication of Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses and reaching a crescendo in 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie 's assassination , revealed irreconcilable views about the duties of government in the face of blasphemy . |
| 7 | Everywhere Joan went , Richard would appear , tipped off by mutual friends in Virgin , among whom he acquired the nickname Tag — after his constant request , ‘ What are you doing tonight ? |
| 8 | It was only after several days of hard work harvesting , rounded off by celibate nights , that he discovered why Rose kept her bedroom door locked . |
| 9 | A vibraphone began a long , tasty Moondance , and a magnificent , stomping Gloria , kicked off by special guest Bap Kennedy , the singer with Energy Orchard , segued into Shakin' All Over . |
| 10 | Except perhaps , another New Zealander , Professor Ernest Rutherford , who , at Manchester University , succeeded in splitting the atom and in the process started off a chain of events that would be even more shattering than that set off by two shots . |
| 11 | Such Koi have a bright yellow body , set off by white fins . |
| 12 | Strikes sparked off by specific incidents such as the Lena goldfields massacre of 1912 , or short stoppages called to mark May Day , were manifestly political in motivation . |
| 13 | Differences soon arose between Reagan and , in particular , Helmut Schmidt , on a growing crisis in Poland , where a series of strikes , sparked off by high prices and food shortages , had broken out during 1980 . |