Example sentences of "have been [verb] off by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 2 | For the time being , the American peace plan has been killed off by the Labour Party 's failure to form a government . |
| 3 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 4 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 5 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 6 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 7 | Some critics link this with the sharp drop in foreign investment last year , though foreigners may also have been put off by the army 's killing of civilian demonstrators in Bangkok last May . |
| 8 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 9 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |
| 10 | Whether this burning interest came from a transmigration from a previous existence I do not know , but it may have been sparked off by a small and relatively insignificant incident which occurred in the spring of 1929 . |
| 11 | Unofficial reports said that the incident might have been sparked off by a dispute over permission to build a mosque . |
| 12 | The murder could have been sparked off by a minor row leading to a slap or punch . |
| 13 | MARK HATELEY breathed life into Rangers ' European Cup challenge last night , just as their hopes seemed to have been killed off by Marseille 's foreign legion . |
| 14 | The concept seems to have been killed off by Sutcliffe v Thackrah ( cited at 14.6.4 ) . |
| 15 | Then without warning a green flare exploded , which had to have been shot off by one of the fishermen . |
| 16 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 17 | Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination . |
| 18 | Leeds and Cleckheaton had been cordoned off by troops to stop the crowds from getting in . |
| 19 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 20 | We now suspect he had been written off by both the consul and the Spanish authorities at an early stage . |
| 21 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 22 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |
| 23 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 24 | Many analysts recalled that the 1964 military coup had been triggered off by , among other things , similar accusations of congressional abuse and corruption . |
| 25 | And in fact , if we look at even more , I mean where I work is a Family Centre in Berinsfield erm and I interviewed erm some of the carers of young children , and most of the women I interviewed had , in fact , been subjected to marital violence by their male partners and in many ways this had been triggered off by arguments over who should take care of the children and over the woman not being in her place , so although it 's important to maybe look at the macro level , I really think we have to look at how men and women behave towards one another , particularly where child care is concerned . |
| 26 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 27 | A government press note issued on Jan. 11 said that the riots had been sparked off by inmates demanding " the release of all prisoners following the liberation of the country from autocratic rule " . |
| 28 | The report revealed that the riots had been sparked off by police mishandling of a case in which a trader was beaten up by a customs official in Taipei . |
| 29 | An Amoco spokesman described the evacuation as a ‘ controlled downmanning ’ although it had been sparked off by the early-morning emergency . |
| 30 | Turkey is the third of those three NATO countries , along with Greece and Germany , which had been sliced off by the cold war from a familiar next-door world . |