Example sentences of "was [verb] off by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 2 | The following year his whole family was carried off by the plague , while in 1666 most of his remaining property was destroyed by the fire . |
| 3 | The last time a defending champion lost as early as the second round of the US Open was in 1989 when Mats Wilander was picked off by a young Pete Sampras . |
| 4 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 5 | Amidst declining opportunities for casual work , the unrest was sparked off by a local government decision to end an emergency aid programme . |
| 6 | ‘ It was ’ , he would read , ‘ inevitable that the Solidarity revolution was sparked off by the Gdansk shipyard workers . |
| 7 | Our concern about police investigations was sparked off by the realisation that the trial is not an adequate tool for testing their reliability , which in turn disqualifies the trial as a verifying test . |
| 8 | The crisis was sparked off by the arrest and dismissal on Feb. 19 of three Council members , namely Col. Thaabe Letsie , Lt.-Col. Joshua Sekhobe Letsie ( both cousins of the King ) and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , and of the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications , Maj. Philip Moyani Mokhanto . |
| 9 | The unrest was sparked off by the arrest of a local policeman on charges of corruption . |
| 10 | It was sparked off by the rape of a schoolgirl at a school in northern Paris on Sept. 27 , and by other attacks in schools in the Paris area . |
| 11 | There was a mix-up over payment for a meal at a café , and Chapman was hauled off by a gendarme to the police station . |
| 12 | A WIDOW whose arm was bitten off by an alligator said yesterday she was sorry the creature was later killed . |
| 13 | Maidstone Town 's future was thrown into further doubt last night when their Third Division game at Scunthorpe tomorrow was called off by the Football League . |
| 14 | Thinking that the aircraft was on fire , he tried to land at once at Takali , but was driven off by the ground defences , heading instead for Hal Far . |
| 15 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 16 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |
| 17 | The earlier student strike , in April , was set off by the dismissal of law teacher Dominic Mngomezulu , which students believed was due to his union activities . |
| 18 | ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’ |
| 19 | The theory was rounded off by the idea that the structure and content of the curriculum as practised in any school whatever , formal or free-form was to the advantage of those capable of indefinite linguistic and conceptual elaboration . |
| 20 | And two weeks ago , one of our colony supply ships managed to broadcast a more reliable report — until transmission was cut off by a boarding party . |
| 21 | The disease has now reinvaded the American tropics , whence it had been absent since migration from Asia was cut off by the world upheavals of 1914–18 . |
| 22 | The Viking Hotel in York was cut off by the River Ouse after rising water stopped work on a new pumping station designed to stop flooding . |
| 23 | Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York . |
| 24 | ‘ Get — ’ Ace was cut off by the jolt of the speeder coming to rest . |
| 25 | One version is that the route was cut off by the rising tide ; the Welsh swooped , and drove the English into the sea . |
| 26 | Irrigation was cut off by the authorities on Aug. 22 in the Andalucian Guadalquivir valley ( south-western Spain ) , and also in Castille-La Mancha at the beginning of October . |
| 27 | He was taken off by a helicopter from RAF Valley , Anglesey and flown to hospital in Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 28 | His knock-down was finished off by a crisp strike from the centre-forward . |
| 29 | Nigel leafed through a few large-print Agatha Christies but was put off by the noxious inexplicable stains on the pages . |
| 30 | But David Holloway in The Daily Telegraph was put off by the author 's ‘ inalienable cynicism ’ and Nicci Gerrard in the Observer damned it as ‘ a competent novel that Mortimer can pull of without really trying ’ . |