Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |
| 2 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 3 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 4 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 5 | Ratcliffe , who is in the Welsh squad for next week 's World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands was carried off after a fifth-minute collision with Geoff Pike . |
| 6 | BAe could end up with only 25 p.c. in the operation , which is being hived off into a new company , Corporate Jets . |
| 7 | There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE . |
| 8 | This can result in buyers waiting months for the goods to arrive or being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 9 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 10 | Where part of a building is let off as a separate factory the landlord will be responsible for providing and maintaining in efficient working order and good repair sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the persons employed in the factory ( Factories Act 1961 , s7(1) , s122 ) . |
| 11 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 12 | The last time a defending champion lost as early as the second round of the US Open was in 1989 when Mats Wilander was picked off by a young Pete Sampras . |
| 13 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
| 14 | An area of cleared moor was cordoned off with a wind-powered electric fence to allow heather regrowth , a method which could be repeated elsewhere ; next year 's plans for the estate , five miles north of Pateley Bridge , include protecting and encouraging the spread of bilberry , the indigenous upland plant which disappeared from large tracts of moor when bracken moved in . |
| 15 | Miserably aware that the evening had lurched off to a regrettable start , Shannon fell into step beside him , irritated still further when she caught the receptionist 's knowing smirk at the sight of them walking out together . |
| 16 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 17 | In one case that I know of , a subsidiary of a major UK company got itself into difficulty through totally misunderstanding its product costs as engineering costs , written off as a lump-sum period cost , increased with the production of more advanced products . |
| 18 | Thus , ( 43 ) has the same ambiguity as ( 39 ) between predicate qualifier , giving the " cosmetic " version , and this new pattern of interpretation , which must correspond to the " unacquainted " meaning , and the distinction between the two senses of sentences like ( 39 ) should not be written off as a mere matter of " nuances of meaning " , but instead shows one sequence of surface syntax answering to two different intensional patterns . |
| 19 | Beaumont is upset that Jodami 's comfortable two lengths defeat of Rushing Wild is being written off as a sub-standard Gold Cup in some quarters . |
| 20 | ‘ Nothing that ca n't be written off as a momentary aberration between a man and a woman . |
| 21 | More crudely , they are written off as a rampaging mob , victim to primitive urges or the machinations of conspirators . |
| 22 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 23 | The tail , when bitten , may then be broken off at a weak spot near the base , where there is a slight constriction . |
| 24 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 25 | When a bat detects heat it is actually sensing the infra-red radiation given off by a warm body . |
| 26 | The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas . |
| 27 | One of the theories about the abandoned ship Marie Celeste is that the crew were plucked off by a hungry kraken . |
| 28 | In this case the solvent has to be evaporated or boiled off at a low temperature . |
| 29 | WITHIN THE first five minutes of Phallus In Wonderland , a surly youth vomits over a tramp , has a hook shoved through the back of his head and is transported off to a distant planet to meet cartoon barbarian grunge rockers GWAR . |
| 30 | The company has been put into liquidation , and some of its assets have been sold off to a rival firm . |