Example sentences of "being [verb] off by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems daft to have to send to America to buy a British product , but that is what I have done , because I am tired of being ripped off by every Tom , Dick and Harry . |
| 2 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 3 | Parents will no longer accept being fobbed off by the so-called experts . |
| 4 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 5 | The crew of the Arun and Mersey class lifeboats are pictured ready to Poole Quay on 23 May 1991 and being seen off by the director , Brian Miles ( centre ) flanked by the two coxswains , Staff Coxswain Mike Houchen ( right ) and divisional inspector Les Vipond ( left ) . |
| 6 | That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men . |
| 7 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 8 | The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face . |
| 9 | You know the tone of the voice could completely waylay you know lay lay completely your fear of being told off by the by the pleasant tone in your voice . |
| 10 | I chewed my lip and stared into the faint mist being burnt off by the early morning sun . |
| 11 | There were two minor shock-waves from the nose of the craft , rippling through the cockpit before being shrugged off by the surging momentum of the sleek fuselage . |
| 12 | Three 12year-olds were rescued by the Tynemouth inshore lifeboat after being cut off by the tide just south of the Marsden Grotto at South Shields . |
| 13 | with , with posh people , if th if they were being pissed off by the fact that you did n't reply to the invitation properly then he 's a dickhead . |
| 14 | The project is to be paid for with a tailor-made $29m World Bank loan , which is scheduled to be approved by the Hungarian government later this month , before being signed off by the bank . |
| 15 | Cos if he 's not being put off by a boyfriend which most men would . |
| 16 | Parents are encouraged by seeing a perceived expert being as firm as they would like to be and not being put off by the resulting tantrum . |
| 17 | Sybillin had been foot perfect up to that point and , far from being put off by the drama around him , flew the remaining fences to come home 10 lengths clear of Knight 's Spur . |
| 18 | Shoppers who were increasingly being scared off by the threat of town-centre misbehaviour and the fear of visiting football crowds , are flocking back under the watchful gaze of the cameras , which are monitored 24 hours a day by an Airdrie police team . |