Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shetland sheep are an example of a breed which has recently come off the Rare Breed Survival Trusts ' books , largely due to its popularity with small flock owners . |
| 2 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 3 | Just as you have written off the 1991 vintage in France , a sample appears on the doorstep to confound you . |
| 4 | The new law immediately sparked off a political crisis as hardline Slovak nationalists began demonstrations and a hunger strike in protest against a clause allowing the official use of minority languages in towns or villages where the minority nationality formed at least 20 per cent of the population ( a large ethnic Hungarian minority , concentrated in southern Slovakia , was increasingly the target of nationalist hatred ; there were also Polish , Ukrainian and Gypsy communities ) . |
| 5 | Normally his provocative question would have sparked off a fiery response , but now , feeling gloomy and depressed , Luce said nothing . |
| 6 | AN Ayrshire schoolboy 's shock at conditions in an East African secondary school has sparked off a remarkable effort to help the pupils . |
| 7 | She sees red , however , when the slogans and other aspects of her designs are copied and bowdlerised ; she has sounded off a great deal about suing the culprits , a litigious reflex often apparent in her career . |
| 8 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 9 | Fragments of rock , and of Mait , flung backwards by the blast , also set off the other bomb and in moments , several tens of yards of ceiling had collapsed in . |
| 10 | The Americans have pulled off a technological miracle to stage the US Cup game against Germany in Detroit 's Silverdome . |
| 11 | Blackadder and Wolf crossed in the second-half , when Scotland were at least able to ensnare some ball for Nicol , Dods and Townsend to release Stanger for a try , his second distinguishing act of the tie , having earlier pulled off a try-saving tackle . |
| 12 | While Lady Chatterley outrages viewers on BBC1 , and Carlton Television invest in a major three-part drama called A Woman 's Guide to Adultery ( to be screened in the autumn ) Ray has pulled off a major scoop now . |
| 13 | The Metropolis in Saltcoats , for example , recently pulled off a major coup by securing a live set from Chaka Khan . |
| 14 | GARRYOWEN have pulled off a major coup with the appointment of former All Blacks captain Andy Leslie as coach for the next two seasons . |
| 15 | pulled off a double victory , when their drum corps defeated the World Champions — Shotts and Dykehead — to win first in the drumming section , and first in Marching and Deportment . |
| 16 | TOG O' WAR ace Steve Churchill has pulled off the greatest prize — a world championship . |
| 17 | Christie 's pulled off the biggest coup of the week , selling a complete , signed Vollard suite for £600,000 ( $906,000 ) to David Tunick bidding in the room , the first Vollard suite to sell at auction since 1982 ( although another set was unsold at Sotheby 's last year ) . |
| 18 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 19 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 20 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 21 | A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session . |
| 22 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |
| 23 | After he has killed off the whole lot of them in various ways , he shouts in triumph , ‘ Jesus , I got 'em all ! ’ |
| 24 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |