Example sentences of "[to-vb] off [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 2 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 3 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 4 | To pick off some of the wandering DEC herd , Hewlett-Packard has signed a joint marketing pact that will put Raxco Inc 's VAX/VMS data centre management products on HP 9000 Series 800 and Series 700 machines : the Rockville , Maryland company has its Security Assessment software immediately available for HP 's 9000s . |
| 5 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 6 | Just as I was put through to you I had the idea of reaching out to take one of these pencils and to tear off one of the canvass-returns as a notepad . |
| 7 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |
| 8 | Governments begin to slough off some of the wealth in taxes to ameliorate the conditions of the poor and provide public amenities for their citizens . |
| 9 | When the aircraft reached its required altitude , somewhere over France , a rear crew member was asked by the Captain to switch off one of the pressurisation systems . |
| 10 | The Comer had not managed to loosen the knot of the tie , though its ends floated wide , or to hoist off one of the regulation black shoes . |
| 11 | In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck . |
| 12 | The very specimens to which Gould refers so casually in his letter , particularly those which came to be known as ‘ Darwin 's finches ’ , were to spark off one of the most controversial theories of all time . |
| 13 | It might be better to seal off some of the most polluted land — like America 's vast military estates — from the public and leave it as new wildernesses . |
| 14 | Mr Goria plans to liquidate Federconsorzi 's assets in order to pay off some of the group 's debt ( although he is unlikely to force the group into formal bankruptcy ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Now if you 'll promise to pay off some of the arrears you can build your shed . |
| 16 | Almost immediately , she had written ta her father 's supplier in London and made an offer to pay off some of the debt he owed . |
| 17 | The federal government has assumed responsibility for Columbia 's debts after the company went bankrupt , and California is now negotiating to pay off some of the monies owed by Maxxam in return for taking over the forest . |
| 18 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 19 | It is rare for an Indie band to take off big on the strength of a first record . |
| 20 | Recently a major new canal has been made to cut off some of the tributary rivers . |
| 21 | The CCBE has done a great deal behind the scenes to fend off some of the battier ideas emanating from the European Commission . |