Example sentences of "off [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Trinidad terms ’ , proposed in 1990 by John Major when he was Britain 's chancellor , write off two-thirds of a poor country 's debt incurred before a certain date , and reschedule the rest over 25 years . |
| 2 | The number of dead and injured was expected to rise as rescue teams reached more outlying regions cut off due to the widespread destruction of roads and bridges . |
| 3 | Teddy organised small-group backings that creamed off some of the best New York musicians of the day — men such as Lester Young , Buck Clayton and Ben Webster — from the resident big bands . |
| 4 | From 1986 onwards , the Thatcher government raised 4–6 billion a year by selling off some of the major public corporations — British Gas , British |
| 5 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 6 | Frequent Bolovian references ( drawings , some rhymes , and much Bolovian dogma ) show that in the period 1927–30 Eliot found this a valuable way of letting off some of the emotional steam generated by his conversion ; serious discussions of theology are juxtaposed in this correspondence with ridiculous accounts of Bolovian religious practice , one letter dated according to the day of St Cecilia , another according to that of St Gumbolumbo . |
| 7 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 8 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 9 | To lose weight the intake of calories from the diet must be less than required — so that the shortfall is made up by burning off some of the excess weight , which is mainly , fatty tissue deposits . |
| 10 | To pick off some of the wandering DEC herd , Hewlett-Packard has signed a joint marketing pact that will put Raxco Inc 's VAX/VMS data centre management products on HP 9000 Series 800 and Series 700 machines : the Rockville , Maryland company has its Security Assessment software immediately available for HP 's 9000s . |
| 11 | One governor commented that he was trying to pick off some of the weaker governors who had no sense of what their role was meant to be . |
| 12 | The CCBE has done a great deal behind the scenes to fend off some of the battier ideas emanating from the European Commission . |
| 13 | Besides those I have mentioned others present included Mr and Mrs Panagiotis Lemos , she was one of the hardworking joint Chairmen of the evening with Baronne Jacques de Mandat-Grancey ; Lady Russell , who was the honorary Present ; her daughter Lady Boothby , who showed off some of the lovely jewellery that was auctioned ; Mrs Anastasios Nomikos , who was Vice President , the Countess of Lichfield , . |
| 14 | A secret report into the laboratory 's future concluded that the cheapest option was to close the laboratory , lay off half of the 200 scientists and move the rest to the government laboratories run by AEA Technology at Harwell in Oxfordshire . |
| 15 | He resisted and the assailant made off empty-handed on a large , blue and white Yamaha motorbike . |
| 16 | Andrew , is there a feature in this plan called waiver of premium , what these means to you is that if you 're off ill for a long period of time , through accident , ill-health , whatever , Abbey will actually still pay them for you , until you 're well again . |
| 17 | He has been off sick for the last six weeks and may never return to the job . |
| 18 | So scenario , clients been off sick for the last six months with a back problem . |
| 19 | I have a part-time job , but I have been off sick for the last two weeks , because I ca n't keep my mind on it . |
| 20 | I have a part-time job , but I have been off sick for the last two weeks , because I ca n't keep my mind on it . |
| 21 | I therefore summarise the proposals for our discussion next week and apologise for its lateness chiefly due to my being off sick at a crucial point . |
| 22 | These exercise their antimicrobial powers against a wide variety of different bacteria and when given for , say , a sore throat , will also kill off many of the normal commensal organisms in the intestine ( which is why a lot of people develop diarrhoea when taking antibiotics ) , and will also destroy the normal bacterial flora in the vagina . |
| 23 | Strach was in good form , but went off injured in the second half , possibly as a result of Curle doing a fine impression of a large concrete block at him ( for which he was booked ) . |
| 24 | Thus the existence of coalition served to divide the collective leadership by separating those who had power and influence from those who did not , by separating the senior men from their junior colleagues and by cutting off those under the Prime Minister 's influence from the rest . |
| 25 | Oddly enough , his criticism gives off less of a religious odour than that of Leavis , who was secular all his thinking life . |
| 26 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 27 | Four birds died in the knowledge that they had pulled off one of the best saves ever seen at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 28 | Thus Falkenhayn through his pusillanimity , his passion for half-measures and his obsession with the ‘ bleeding white ’ experiment , on February 25th-26th lost the opportunity of bringing off one of the greatest triumphs of the war . |
| 29 | The arrival of Christianity in Birka sparked off one of the sternest tussles between Christianity and paganism anywhere in this period . |
| 30 | He waited while I tore off one of the orange-coloured tickets , then another one . |