Example sentences of "be [verb] off at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 2 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 3 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
| 4 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 5 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 6 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 7 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 8 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 9 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 10 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 11 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 12 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 13 | Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time . |
| 14 | The instructions warn that if the stove burns with a high yellow flame it should be turned off at the fuel valve and allowed to cool . |
| 15 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 16 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 17 | Discarded socks can be cut off at the ankle bend to make a similar protective sleeve . |
| 18 | Altars were once more to be railed off at the east end of parish churches . |
| 19 | I am cut off at the waist for ever . |
| 20 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 21 | Heats 9-16 are run off at the Ringsend venue and it will be a major shock if Ballyfolion , a comfortable qualifier last week , does not oblige again . |
| 22 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 23 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 24 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 25 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 26 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 27 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 28 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 29 | In order to stop the printer echo being turned off at the end of the CLI command file , the CLI is suspended with the " . |
| 30 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |