Example sentences of "that the [noun] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 2 | Auditors checking Department of Energy accounts have discovered that the ministry wrote off £9.54 million spent on research which had to be cancelled following nuclear research cuts and plans for electricity privatisation . |
| 3 | They are identical in the same way that the articles coming off a well-engineered assembly line are identical . |
| 4 | With soloist , conductor and orchestra on this kind of form , it is no surprise that the Finale goes off like a rocket . |
| 5 | Is it not time that the Government got off their behinds and made it compulsory for a payment to be made every year to every senior citizen in this land ? |
| 6 | Murdock was not the first to realise that the gas given off by heated coal could be burnt . |
| 7 | More recently , however , Kortlandt ( 1972 ) , in an extensive summary of palaeogeographical palaeoecological , and biochemical evidence , has argued that the orang-utan split off early from the stem leading to the root of the African radiation of ancestral apes into gorilla , chimpanzee , and man ( Fig. 4.2 ) . |
| 8 | Most think that the orang-utan branched off before the gorilla and the chimpanzee . |
| 9 | Jonathan Ram was our ancestor , and I was sure then that the Worm fed off his hatred . |
| 10 | The general theory of relativity , on its own , can not explain these features or answer these questions because of its prediction that the universe started off with infinite density at the big bang singularity . |
| 11 | Anglian Water Authority claims that the water drawn off from the lake is still safe despite these problems because of the treatment it gives the water before it reaches people 's taps . |
| 12 | What happens is that the drug kills off a lot of the resident Candida , the yeast cells burst open , and some of the cell contents are absorbed into the bloodstream , producing an exaggerated version of the usual symptoms . |
| 13 | The inquest heard that the driver ran off after the accident , in which a motorcyclist and a pedestrian were also injured . |
| 14 | However , stability demands that the gain falls off at high frequency ( see next section ) . |
| 15 | Many people find that the weight drops off quickly once the holiday has finished . |
| 16 | As for the LeBaron , the main thing in its favour was that the roof came off . |
| 17 | Well he washed this one first and then he went over there and er then it dawned on him that the ends pull off |
| 18 | Gillespie had claimed that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle , and he did not intend to harm his wife . |
| 19 | It is assumed that the Earth is hot enough for its outer regions to have previously been vaporized , in which case it can be shown that the material flung off forms a thin disc of gas as in Figure 6.11 ( b ) . |
| 20 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 21 | However , it was in Scotland that the initiative took off . |
| 22 | Write to the government : Ask for more official development assistance — ask that the banks write off Third World debts |
| 23 | This could be explained as resulting from the dynamical drag of the surrounding gas provided that the galaxies start off with individual dark haloes . |
| 24 | Sharpe did the same , simply aiming the rifle in the direction of the column , and pulling the trigger so that the bullet whipped off through the stalks . |
| 25 | Can he assure me that the woodlands sold off by the commission will be accessible to all walkers , especially as after the next election a lot of Scottish Labour Members will have a lot of time to do a lot of walking ? |