Example sentences of "off its [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last Autumn it gave up all pretence of continuing on in the business and sold off its Personal Mainframe hardware interests to clone newcomer Digital Systems Research ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 2 | The Open Software Foundation denies a scathing front-page story in last week 's Communications Week that practically writes off its Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) , charging it with being late , possibly too late to matter much to the marketplace , and with causing in-fighting between OSF 's technology suppliers . |
| 3 | The Museo Cantonale d'Arte , Lugano , Switzerland , kicks off its 1992 exhibition programme with a selection of recent acquisitions from the collection of Dr Panza di Biumo ( many of whose pieces are now also in the Guggenheim , New York ) which began in the 1950s with the purchase of works by Tàpies and Fautrier . |
| 4 | MOSCOW — Azerbaijan is showing no sign of bowing to Moscow and calling off its month-old rail blockade of Armenia , despite a Supreme Soviet decree empowering the government to send in troops to get trains moving , writes Rupert Cornwell . |
| 5 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 6 | But yesterday , as B&I showed off its 20,000 tonne vessel , the Isle of Innisfree , to travel agents , local civic leaders and the media , company officials said they were not worried by the opposition 's move . |
| 7 | But yesterday , as B&I showed off its 20,000 tonne vessel , the Isle of Innisfree , to travel agents , local civic leaders and the media , company officials said they were not worried by the opposition 's planned move . |
| 8 | Just 11,493 spectators turned up at Upton Park as ITV kicked off its live Football League coverage to rival Channel 4 's Italian action and Sky 's Premier League offering . |
| 9 | The drama is heightened by the fact that the MMB will soon float off its lucrative milk side , Dairy Crest . |