Example sentences of "off [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 2 | However , Baker had to call on his years of experience to shake off the gritty Ballymena man , who made all the running , but faltered over the final ends . |
| 3 | Shetland sheep are an example of a breed which has recently come off the Rare Breed Survival Trusts ' books , largely due to its popularity with small flock owners . |
| 4 | The jury in the David Nock murder trial has been told that the accused man showed off the alleged murder weapon to his workmates . |
| 5 | However , a southbound freight would often be heard departing from Staveley perhaps ten minutes before the signal man pulled off the concrete post LNER signal . |
| 6 | Across Britain , Tory associations have enough to pay off the Central Office deficit and still spend plenty on local campaigning . |
| 7 | Depreciation is to be calculated on the straight line basis to write off the net book value of fixed assets over their expected useful lives at the following annual rates , starting from the month that the asset was purchased . |
| 8 | ‘ Send off the personal quotation request or phone direct on 0483 754 500 ’ |
| 9 | The black wings and running-board set off the sober mole colour of the body , and the President glowed as he proudly explained the working of the controls and gear lever , opened the doors to display the interior with its adjustable foot-rests for the rear-seat passengers and obliged a request from one admirer to see how much space there was in the luggage compartment at the back . |
| 10 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
| 11 | A shock jarred through Ruth ; Fand reached up and , with an effort , pulled off the heavy silver helmet . |
| 12 | Do n't let the ultra-sophisticates put you off the guided city tour . |
| 13 | Unix System Labs , which is n't even a party to the action , has been subpoea 'd by the Open Software Foundation in its attempt to ward off the now-famous $100m antitrust suit lodged against it by Addamax Inc that Sun Microsystems Inc could wind up paying for ( UX Nos 404 , 331 ) . |
| 14 | We have seen charts that describe the organisational chart of a police authority and yet miss off the lowly police constable . |
| 15 | As hire purchase was judged to be a system of hiring with an option to buy ( by eventually paying off the full credit price ) , HP escaped the controls of the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 16 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 17 | If a villager migrates to Bombay and makes a living as a hawker , he probably has to bribe a cop to stay in business and pay off the local mafia don . |
| 18 | Campaigners fighting to kill off the proposed Darlington Cross Town Route have welcomed the news . |
| 19 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 20 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 21 | I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme . |
| 22 | However , for the best effects of all , turn off the main room light and have a few lamps in corners to read by and so on . |
| 23 | The Friar broke off a young oak bough and waved it about his sweating forehead to keep off the flies that followed him in wavering clouds , a floating band of skirmishers that his ceaseless counter-attacks could not drive away . |
| 24 | He helps his twin brother to carry off a young peasant girl from among his tenantry , her husband having first been killed by being deliberately overworked in unhealthy conditions . |
| 25 | Getting off a packed S-Bahn carriage at the Zoo station , a woman pointed out to her husband the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church : ‘ Look ! |
| 26 | 2.50:DAVID Nicholson pulled off a tremendous training performance when Duntree won at Cheltenham after two years off the track . |
| 27 | LYNDA Ramsden pulled off a tremendous training performance when saddling High Premium to win the William Hill Lincoln , and Will of Steel to finish third , at Doncaster today . |
| 28 | Nenna and the two girls shook off a certain teatime drowsiness and went back on deck , where they stood astounded . |
| 29 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy — with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright — and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
| 30 | It runs off a normal car battery and has ample power to drive the punt at a greater rate of knots than you are likely to need , unless you are going to troll for pike ; and then you would be better using a boat rather than a punt . |