Example sentences of "off [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By killing off the stable element of the fictional character , she abandons a realist notion of the individual identity and the narrative norms which subtend it , freeing the way for a concept of subjectivity and a form of writing in which these factors do not come into play . |
| 2 | For dry lining , the plasterboards used are the type with tapered edges which allow a reinforcing tape and filler to be used to finish off the joint flush with the board surface . |
| 3 | TURKEY will be on an incredible £12,000-a-man bonus to pull off the greatest result in their football history at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 4 | Laugh off the endless epithetising of everyone who crosses his path — his ‘ pretty elder daughter ’ , the ‘ renowned tailor ’ , even my own guest appearance as ‘ that respected mountaineer ’ ; roar aloud at the over-the-topness of the following : ‘ That evening at dinner the flap of our tent opened and in strode a figure of heroic majesty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 7 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 8 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 9 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 10 | To win Test matches , one has to take wickets consistently , and a high proportion of chances come off the outside edge of the bat . |
| 11 | The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life . |
| 12 | These pins are used to hold the coils on the board ; snip off the odd pin on that side of the bobbin which has three pins . |
| 13 | OLYMPIC hero Seb Coe shows off the new girl in his life … and reveals that he 's just Maddy about her . |
| 14 | Galerie St Etienne starts off the new year on a somewhat lugubrious note with a show called ‘ The Dance of Death : Images of Mortality in German Art ’ . |
| 15 | Apart from the champagne spilled over the bow , there was plenty consumed in a more conventional fashion as the crew showed off the new boat for the first time . |
| 16 | In a display of bravado , the IRA staged a publicity stunt , showing off the new device to two freelance journalists . |
| 17 | ENGLAND stars Jason Leonard ( left ) and Dewi Morris show off the new kit with David Pears ( middle ) in the away strip . |
| 18 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 19 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 20 | Mr Bush turned to attacks in a last bid to keep his job and pull off the political upset of the century and ripped into ‘ the slippery one ’ as a man who can not be trusted during a hectic five-state blitz to shore up his support . |
| 21 | The adrenaline makes her giggle , and still rising noradrenaline levels set off the familiar beat of passion . |
| 22 | And it was the arrival of one of the men who had denied them victory in the past that helped to spark off the renewed challenge in 1993 . |
| 23 | A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session . |
| 24 | ALSO , Liverpool wo n't want to write off the best part of £1 million spent on recruiting Souness : £500,000 a year salary and £400,000 compensation to Rangers . |
| 25 | We also felt that Zephyr had been under pressure due to her immense popularity and had been given little opportunity to show off the gentle side of her nature — in the same way the more extrovert patients had dominated the evening while those of shy and retiring nature had slightly missed out . |
| 26 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 27 | Remove as much damaged wood as possible , then dry off the remaining timber with a hot air gun |
| 28 | The announcement was in response to the enormous oil spill off the southern tip of the Shetland Islands : eleven million tons of oil destined for western European countries passes through the Venetian Lagoon each year , bound for the port of Marghera . |
| 29 | He would no doubt be fending off the polite questioning of Ralarth 's lords throughout the meal . |
| 30 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |