Example sentences of "[to-vb] off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
| 2 | Eleven tricks made for a very good score , as several other declarers had actually contrived to go off in the same contract . |
| 3 | Therefore , if a moth hears a bat approaching about 100 feet away , its best policy is to fly off in the other direction . |
| 4 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Cricket was just beginning to take off in the mid-19th century . |
| 7 | Dominic Woosey purveys his own brand of ambient House , lightly peppered with acidic loops , whilst Cosmic Baby turns the acid machines up full and demonstrates why Germany is about to take off in the same way that Belgium did last year . |
| 8 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |