Example sentences of "be [verb] off [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should a main branch be broken off for some reason ( by vineyard machinery , for example ) , it is permissible to bring out a shoot half-way along the next branch to fill the gap . |
| 2 | You 'll be hanging off with that |
| 3 | There is no ‘ mass audience ’ of uncritical couch potatoes ready to be fobbed off with any old rubbish . |
| 4 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |
| 5 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 6 | The suicide theory wo n't occur to her and her common sense would tell her it 's unlikely to be written off as another accident . |
| 7 | I am not yet wholly sure about the specific terms of the policy taken out , but it appears that in the eventuality of the jewel being stolen , either before or after her death , the insurance money is payable to her husband — and is not to be syphoned off into some trust fund or other . |
| 8 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 9 | So , expecting to be whisked off to some faraway hot spot for a mild spell of brainwashing , we duly prepared to bring you next week 's Unigram from under the shade of a palm tree on a secluded sandy beach — or at least somewhere nicer than four storeys above the Charing Cross Road in rainy central London . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean I 'm suddenly going to be whisked off to some other dimension ? |
| 11 | Group leaders can easily be bought off in some way , and once co-opted can usually deliver a quiescent membership in support of the status quo . |
| 12 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 13 | I do n't think she 'll be staying off for any great length of time , with the open day coming up I think she 'll be |
| 14 | And since one partial theory can be played off against another in the same way that sentences can , we have eventually to hold , with Quine , that ‘ the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science ’ . |
| 15 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 16 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |
| 17 | Manager Graham Taylor was expecting Shearer to be laid off for some while , but the extent of the injury will be worrying for all concerned . |
| 18 | The attacks came without warning and did n't seem to be set off by any direct thought about being moved . |
| 19 | If it was clearly intended that the ex gratia sum should include an element to cover the basic award , it will be set off against that award , but not otherwise . |
| 20 | In an action under the law of England and Wales or the law of Northern Ireland for damages for personal injuries ( including any such action arising out of a contract ) any saving to the injured person which is attributable to his maintenance wholly or partly at public expense in a hospital , nursing home or other institution shall be set off against any income lost by him as a result of his injuries . |
| 21 | The cold water cistern provides a reserve of water in case the mains should be cut off for any reason , and because the system ( apart from the rising main ) operates at a lower pressure it is quieter . |
| 22 | Why should I be cut off like this ? |
| 23 | It was frustrating to be cut off from such a view but of course the original builders of the house had not been impressed by such aesthetic considerations . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're whipping the rug from under our feet , ’ she was told , ‘ We 'll be cut off from all our friends . |
| 25 | Because the shuttle will be out of contact with a TDRS for about half its 90-minute orbit of the Earth , scientists on board will be cut off from those on the ground who designed the experiments . |
| 26 | A ministerial statement made in Parliament is an equally authoritative source of such information : why should the courts be cut off from this source of information as to the mischief aimed at ? |
| 27 | Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search . |
| 28 | It is , perhaps inevitably , some way from the limb-flinging Jackson performances of old , during which , twisting into the microphone , Jackson 's body would appear to be making off in several directions at once . |
| 29 | BNP , which is probably worth FFr40 billion-45 billion , is likely to be auctioned off in several tranches . |
| 30 | It takes at least two terms even to become familiar with a new job but , after that , few management changes can be put off for more than a year . |