Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] off [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives . |
| 2 | The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid . |
| 3 | Were they still dressing or had the ADC forgotten to switch off the lights ? |
| 4 | Torquay was a frequent winner , with its carefully designed beds of petunias , zinnias , and brilliant pink geraniums , designed to show off the colour harmonies . |
| 5 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 6 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 7 | Other companies quickly moved to siphon off a share of the new business . |
| 8 | Finally , do n't forget the value of such structural objects as walls , containers , raised beds or even large boulders sited to set off the plants . |
| 9 | It can be used to cast off a group of stitches at , say , the last row of the shoulder ( when the shaping has been done using the holding position ) . |
| 10 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 11 | If , of course , the room is quite big , all sorts of divider devices can be used to partition off a dining area , from screens of one sort or another to large indoor plants or trees . |
| 12 | Nula , 32 , of North London , has had to fight off an attacker at a bus stop and survive a nightmare ride with a sinister mini-cab driver . |
| 13 | You also pay premiums into an endowment savings plan or pension plan — the proceeds of the endowment plan when it matures , or the cash sum at retirement from the pension plan , are used to pay off the capital at the end of the loan . |
| 14 | This cash can be used to pay off the loan . |
| 15 | The finance divisional manager , Stephen Hughes , said 246 tenants had agreed to pay off the arrears in instalments , and it was hoped more would follow suit . |
| 16 | It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) . |
| 17 | Now a local Tory MP is demanding that Shire Hall be sold to pay off the authority 's massive debts . |
| 18 | In one of the photographs we show the latter being used to cut off a water pipe close to the floor . |
| 19 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 20 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 21 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 22 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 23 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 24 | Since taking over as Brazil 's manager on 6 January , Sebastiano Lazaroni has attempted to pull off a transformation that has hitherto seemed impossible in Brazilian football . |
| 25 | Depreciation is provided to write off the cost or valuation , less estimated residual values , of all tangible fixed assets , except freehold lane , over their expected useful lives . |
| 26 | Depreciation is provided to write off the cost less estimated residual values of all fixed assets , except freehold land , over their expected useful lives . |
| 27 | Depreciation is provided to write off the cost less estimated residual values of all fixed assets , except freehold land , over their expected useful lives . |
| 28 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 29 | Ada Gaily had remembered to switch off the refrigerator . |
| 30 | Unix System Labs is set to kick off a Solution Providers Program May 17 in which it will partner with systems integrators such as EDS and make sales calls with them . |