Example sentences of "to kill off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GRAHAM NEARN , MANAGING DIRECTOR , CATERHAM CARS LTD Life in the Lotus position General Motors ' decision to kill off the Lotus Elan shocked many British car enthusiasts . |
| 2 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 3 | Now she exclusively tells PETER GRANT about her four years with the top soap and reveals that she wanted the writers to kill off the character of Chrissie Rogers . |
| 4 | Mr Abdul Halim Arshat , the secretary-general of Malaysia 's leading Islamic political party , has claimed that ‘ support for Iraq is necessary as the real motive of the US is to kill off the Muslims in Baghdad and to destroy the city . ’ |
| 5 | As Ronnie Convery found out , local activists hope to capitalise on the company 's financial problems to kill off the incinerator plan . |
| 6 | The task of the Conservatives was to kill off the Liberals as a credible third alternative and then project the Conservative Party as offering a dynamic alternative to socialism . |
| 7 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 8 | To kill off the prebendary , a reverend old man whose one hundredth birthday was going to be celebrated on the next Sunday , the second Sunday after Trinity , at St Andrew 's Church and just about everywhere else in Oxford … |