Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent , more complex example is David Cronenberg 's Dead Ringers ( 1988 ) , which arguably starts off as black comedy but ends as something like black tragedy . |
| 2 | The 50MHz 601 throws off only 6.5 watts and the 66MHz 9 watts . |
| 3 | Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic . |
| 4 | Radium is readily absorbed into the body where it concentrates in the bone marrow and gives off very damaging alpha particles . |
| 5 | Cooking , washing up , bathing , washing and drying clothes and so on can create as much as a further 10 to 12 litres of water a day , and every litre of fuel burnt in a flueless oil or paraffin heater gives off roughly another litre of water vapour . |
| 6 | And there is the paint they use which gives off really bad fumes . |
| 7 | If it auctions off too few cruzeiros , it risks destroying the economy , as there will not be enough money to pay for anything . |