Example sentences of "be [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 2 | The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night . |
| 3 | The tail , when bitten , may then be broken off at a weak spot near the base , where there is a slight constriction . |
| 4 | That proposal has a number of different themes to it ; briefly , Channel Four would be floated off from the IBA and would then be franchised as any other ITV company . |
| 5 | The request serial number should also be checked off against the records in the control book , and logged as completed . |
| 6 | Lloyd George discovered in 1919 , as Law had done in 1914 , that a Unionist party that had given its total commitment to a cause would not be fobbed off with a compromise . |
| 7 | The Palestinians , meanwhile , are to be fobbed off with a degree of internal autonomy — as was proposed in the original Camp David agreements of 1978 , brokered by Jimmy Carter , between Israeli premier Menachim Begin and the Egyptian president , Anwar Sadat . |
| 8 | As a conscious exercise in boosting public morale at a difficult time there was a real danger of over-indulgence in wishful thinking ; it would be a cruel delusion to anticipate too many rabbits out of the hat , only to be fobbed off by the patter of the conjurer . |
| 9 | He was n't going to be fobbed off by the issue of her drink either , she found . |
| 10 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 11 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 12 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 13 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 14 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 15 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 16 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 18 | Stamina ( 15 credits ) : If a player runs out of energy or stamina , he 'll be carried off on a stretcher . |
| 19 | That area should now be hived off along the line delineated in Map B. |
| 20 | The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false . |
| 21 | Containers and freight , craned down on to the raft from the deck of the LSL , would be lifted off by the giant Fiat Allis fork-lift trucks . |
| 22 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 23 | Costs which do not qualify as issue costs should be written off to the profit and loss account as incurred . |
| 24 | The SORP requires that advances should be written off to the extent that it appears there is no realistic prospect of recovery . |
| 25 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 26 | ‘ Nothing that ca n't be written off as a momentary aberration between a man and a woman . |
| 27 | Thus , ( 43 ) has the same ambiguity as ( 39 ) between predicate qualifier , giving the " cosmetic " version , and this new pattern of interpretation , which must correspond to the " unacquainted " meaning , and the distinction between the two senses of sentences like ( 39 ) should not be written off as a mere matter of " nuances of meaning " , but instead shows one sequence of surface syntax answering to two different intensional patterns . |
| 28 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 29 | The naming from the dock of John Cameron ( alias Sergeant Mor ) , a vindictive Jacobite soldier of fortune , can not be written off as an act of desperation by James Stewart , who was promptly marked out as accessory once the actual murder occurred in Appin . |
| 30 | Being treed by the great wonder-rabbi Shmuel ben Issachar might be written off as an occupational hazard ; being trapped — on an assignment officially aborted-by an undead amateur is unforgivable . |