Example sentences of "which [verb] off the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A different approach is to inhibit the hormone which starts off the female sexual cycle . |
| 2 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 3 | Harry thinks that this fruit house is almost unique ; that is , he knows of one other which started off the same but has since been altered . |
| 4 | Whitefly also encourage aphids which feed off the sugary deposits . |
| 5 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 6 | And that despite an interest-rate ceiling of 4.25% imposed by Congress until the mid-1970s , which shut off the long-bond market to government borrowing . |
| 7 | There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle . |
| 8 | Gregory 's programme of radical reform depended upon the law and a renewed interest in legal study and declaration provided the impetus which sparked off the legal renaissance of the twelfth century . |