Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 2 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 4 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |
| 5 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 6 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 7 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 8 | The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly . |
| 9 | Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney . |
| 10 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 11 | So at one extreme you 've got the explorer who simply goes off into the unknown . |
| 12 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 13 | In Rugby Union , Chinnor and Swindon , they 'll be locked in combat in the first round of the Oxfordshire Courage floodlit Cup , and that match kicks off at the southern by-pass ground at seven fifteen . |
| 14 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 15 | It brings you first to the Lac d'Orédon , which is a genial , pine girt spot , and from which another , rather more dubious road leads off to the left up to the dam of Cap-de-Long . |
| 16 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 17 | The pink of this species is generally verging on pale purple , and extends from the head in a wedge which tails off to the lower part of the back of the body . |
| 18 | This will be by far the longest record for any society , a record which now breaks off in the 1880s . |
| 19 | Just why is unclear but follow it and , four miles before Gubbio , a road branches off to the beautiful region of Monte Maggiore . |
| 20 | There are signs of civilisation along here , with a scattering of crofts and farmsteads , and a narrow road branches off to the isolated community of Badluarach , a lonely outpost at the entrance to Little Loch Broom . |
| 21 | Joffe 's pious vision of man 's inhumanity to man all comes together in Pauline Collins ' clinic : it squares off against the local mafia , saves lepers etc . |
| 22 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |
| 23 | HAMLET , however , continues the movement into an about-turn and walks off in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 25 | NEXT Thursday ( 21 February ) , an Ariane rocket lifts off from the European Space Centre in French Guiana to put the second Astra satellite into orbit at 19° East . |
| 26 | That done he lets her go , and with his head over his shoulder turned , he goes out backwards without taking his yes off her … she runs off in the opposite direction . |