Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galerie St Etienne starts off the new year on a somewhat lugubrious note with a show called ‘ The Dance of Death : Images of Mortality in German Art ’ . |
| 2 | If the Scoutmaster says a novelty plastic umbrella stand is pure elephant 's foot or if the vicar 's wife passes off a gold-plated tie-pin as the real thing , they can be held to account under law . |
| 3 | ‘ … originally the ego includes everything , later it separates off an external world from itself ’ . |
| 4 | Today he plays off a nine handicap , a great help when he is carrying the bag . |
| 5 | Hastings , who has played only 40 minutes on the tour , increased speculation that all was not well when he declined a round of golf today significant as the Watsonians star is a golf fanatic and plays off a seven handicap . |
| 6 | To confirm her assertion that there are radicals and revolutionaries in every corner of contemporary social life who are campaigning to overthrow the ‘ traditional ’ moral order , Mrs Whitehouse reels off a formidable list of ‘ folk devils ’ . |
| 7 | OLYMPIC hero Seb Coe shows off the new girl in his life … and reveals that he 's just Maddy about her . |
| 8 | Ludmila Andrews ' Mad , Bad Mortal Beings is about the emotional turmoil of a black woman recovering from a relationship , and Sonali Fernando 's Shakti is a brief fable about a trash-collecting Asian woman who sees off a white yob with sort-of magic powers and struts around in funky transformed shoes . |
| 9 | In the Soviet view it marks off an entire millennium of ‘ feudalism ’ from the capitalist phase which it inaugurated . |
| 10 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 11 | Sadly , his agent , James Kirkman , fends off the futile inquirer with the enthusiasm of a royal bodyguard and indignantly informs you that Freud has only ever painted ‘ family and friends ’ . |
| 12 | Edward gets every fourth day off from work , Leroy gets off every sixth day . |
| 13 | Inflation of the theatricality of the social drama leads detectives to lay emphasis on ‘ the big job ’ and the arrest of the professional ‘ prig ’ who commits the big burglary or pulls off a daring robbery . |
| 14 | Part road movie , part love story and part social commentary , Autobus pulls off the difficult trick of making a simple tale resonate with complex themes and emotions |
| 15 | As with size-confusion , there is no evidence that dazzle-confusion puts off a hungry lion which is close enough to experience it . |
| 16 | Anteriorly the frontal ganglion gives off a frontal nerve which passes to the clypeus , and a pair of lateral roots connect the frontal ganglion with the tritocerebrum . |
| 17 | This is a good place , too , for the mat-like camomile ‘ Treneague ’ , which gives off a strong aroma as you tread it underfoot . |
| 18 | They may both be the most humble men in Christendom , but their fiction gives off a sulphurous whiff . |
| 19 | In particular , the period drum gives off a dismal rattle that haunts the slow movement and makes the transition to the first movement recapitulation even more arresting than usual . |
| 20 | It burns slowly when ignited and gives off a pleasing smell . |
| 21 | The borrower gets the amount of this loan , minus the unpaid balance of the original one , as cash in hand , and then pays off the full number of instalments needed to pay off the full sum . |
| 22 | He is remembered chiefly for his series of twenty Organ Sonatas , but there is much more besides ; a substantial corpus of choral music , including three Requiems and no fewer than twelve Masses , two operas , a Symphony , symphonic poem , two Concertos for Organ ( once upon a time available from E. Power Biggs on a CBS LP ) and one for Piano — and a fair amount of chamber music , sixteen opus numbers in all , of which this Thorofon CD ( the least of seven ) rounds off a complete recording . |
| 23 | An excellent note by the performer rounds off a valuable issue . |
| 24 | There are three stages — larva , nymph and adult — each of which quite often feeds off a different host . |
| 25 | The idea enters the brain and by being given meaning triggers off a biochemical process which soothes and makes us feel happy . |
| 26 | It runs off a normal car battery and has ample power to drive the punt at a greater rate of knots than you are likely to need , unless you are going to troll for pike ; and then you would be better using a boat rather than a punt . |