Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] off for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorazde , home to up to 70,000 residents and refugees , has been cut off for months and under fierce attack for 17 days . |
| 2 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 3 | Cantona should have been sent off for poking Fairclough , BBC did n't show that . |
| 4 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 5 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
| 6 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 7 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 8 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 9 | It would have been better if Cuntona had n't equalised or if Bruce had been sent off for clothes-lining that turk on the half-way line . |
| 10 | They also missed a second half penalty , stand-in keeper Billy Drake saving from David McCabe after Graham McConnell had been sent off for bringing down Finty McConville . |
| 11 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 12 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
| 13 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 14 | He found a place in sight of one of the park 's two lakes where a small plantation of young trees had been fenced off for protection . |
| 15 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 16 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
| 17 | And that 's what they 've been cut off for . |
| 18 | Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience . |
| 19 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 20 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |