Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha began a visit to the Soviet Union on Nov. 6 and announced the re-establishment of consular relations which were broken off in 1956 . |
| 2 | They were frequently left out in the cold and were fobbed off with symbolic concessions — such as a tatty play space instead of a decent nursery . |
| 3 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 4 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 5 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 6 | Strong men fainted and were carried off by weak men … |
| 7 | And we walked down clubbing right and left , and we cleared the streets and those that fell to the floor were carried off by those who had hidden behind when we went past . |
| 8 | Fortunately , Town were let off from this one . |
| 9 | But centuries-old practices are difficult to change , and my protests were written off as those of an ignorant missionary , with no respect for traditional customs . |
| 10 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 11 | Murray and McKean were written off in many quarters after the disappointment of Barcelona — Murray finished eighth after starting favourite , McKean failed to reach the final — and the pair went to Toronto with their careers at the crossroads . |
| 12 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 13 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |
| 14 | When they began to dig up waste land on St George 's Hill in Surrey , they were driven off by local farmers , who almost certainly included small peasants angered at the usurpation of their common rights . |
| 15 | Occasionally they were cut off for other reasons . |
| 16 | Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth , which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday . |
| 17 | Thousands of homes and businesses were cut off by two fires at exchanges in Liverpool and Sheffield last month depriving them of all telephone services , including emergency 999 calls . |
| 18 | The Wiltshire villages of Lacock and Staverton were cut off by impassable country lanes . |
| 19 | Japanese nationals were cut off from personal contacts with Europeans and the import of foreign artefacts , books and anything which might convey Western knowledge was banned . |
| 20 | The western sectors of Berlin ( entirely surrounded by the Soviet core ) were cut off from all access by land to the West , as the Soviets tried to force concessions from the Western powers on the future shape of Germany . |
| 21 | Of the gentry , only the Catholics who were cut off from public office and subjected to heavy fines retreated entirely into their localities and found difficulty in profiting as much as the others , yet their authority as squires remained largely untouched . |
| 22 | His eyes were cut off from any outside flow , angry , as if two parts of his mind were fighting . |
| 23 | Next day , 13th. , four of the squadron 's Hurricanes were led off at 1330 by Flt.Lt . |
| 24 | The site offices were taken off on 18 November . |
| 25 | According to Volodymyr Yavorivsky , the head of the commission , automatic safety systems were switched off on three occasions in the past year ( reputedly in order to boost power production ) . |
| 26 | At Junction , on the Lemhi River , the Nez Perce found the settlements fortified , and were warned off by Chief Tenday of the Lemhi Shoshoni . |
| 27 | I soon decided it was a mug 's game to get emotionally involved with any aircrew , as they were killed off with such regularity . |
| 28 | During the last interglacial reefs occurred ( Fig. 8.35A ) , but with the low sea level of the last glaciation ( Fig. 8.35B ) these were killed off in most areas . |
| 29 | The match turned ugly in the dying minutes when two-goal Tosh of Arbroath and Fife goalkeeper Charles were sent off for violent conduct . |
| 30 | Messengers were sent off to sympathetic neighbours , and , amongst them , Hugh Woodburn of Loudoun Mains sent his younger brother , George , to ask John Nisbet of Hardhill to come with all haste . |