Example sentences of "is [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 ) Whey is drained off during the cutting process , leaving banks of curd that are turned constantly by hand until the correct acidity level is finally achieved ( centre ) . |
| 2 | From Caniço we go back up onto the main airport road and continue on to Santa Cruz ( 20km ) , whose centre is situated off to the right of the main road . |
| 3 | We get a little Federation Cup , which is on now and again , and just the final from Brighton which is broken off at the end of the second set for snooker . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
| 5 | Its lemon fragrance is given off by the leaves without the need to rub them , unlike lemon balm and , even when dried , continue to be pungently scented for years , so that they constitute an excellent ingredient for potpourris . |
| 6 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 7 | Its significance , in terms of the legal consequences which would follow , can be assessed , however , only by drawing a crucial distinction between the situation where the patient requests that further support be terminated , and that where the ventilator is turned off without the consent of the patient . |
| 8 | Next , what is the law governing the situation when the respirator is turned off without the knowledge and consent of the chronically dependent patient ? |
| 9 | Advance corporation tax not recoverable against the mainstream corporation tax liability for the current or previous years is written off to the profit and loss account unless its future recovery can be foreseen . |
| 10 | All expenditure on research and development including the cost of patents and trade marks is written off to the profit and loss account in the year in which it is incurred . |
| 11 | Otherwise ACT is written off in the profit and loss account . |
| 12 | However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world . |
| 13 | Compositional autonomy is closed off in the sphere of avant-garde negation , while commodity musical production takes on an increasingly standardized character , coupling formula and fetishized effect in both ‘ serious ’ and ‘ popular ’ markets . |
| 14 | Five floors below , somebody is sounding off as the traffic before them makes a slow start at the lights . |
| 15 | OOPS : John , in his buggy , is told off by the law |
| 16 | Thus , if a subsidiary company is sold off by the group with surrendered ACT , it ceases to be available for offset . |
| 17 | They were given no votes or erm opportunities and of course the same thing will happen if and when the Parcelforce is sold off from the Post Office er there 's twenty thousand people there . |
| 18 | [ PAMELA enters and is shown off to the visiting aristocrats . ] |
| 19 | And thought : and Floy is going off into the midst of all these and it is perfectly possible that I shall never see him again . |
| 20 | If a stimulus is below a certain intensity , the threshold , no impulse is set off along the fibre . |
| 21 | Other devices are less consistently adopted , but it will be noticed that in ( 2 ) , as often , the non-restrictive clause is set off from the rest of the sentence by commas . |
| 22 | This takes a similar form to the Arch of Peace and is set off by the extended , arcaded arms that drift along the edge of the square . |
| 23 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 24 | The priest , understandably , flees ; the wife tells her husband that he is running off with the partridges , with the result that the husband pursues the priest brandishing his knife , apparently confirming what the wife told the priest . |
| 25 | Therefore , if a moth hears a bat approaching about 100 feet away , its best policy is to fly off in the other direction . |
| 26 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 27 | They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure . |
| 28 | That openness to liberated desire is cut off in the films which the Boxes produce . |
| 29 | As elsewhere some of the pauses between movements sound artificially curtailed ; ditto the resonance of the final notes , which as throughout the set is cut off before the applause . |
| 30 | Furthermore , this structure is split off from the actual social structure they carry ‘ in their minds ’ and which they internalise from their own culture . |