Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Iceland , one might , if one were lucky , also find small quantities of andesitic and rhyolitic rocks being erupted but they are scarce , since they can only be formed by skimming off silica-rich material from a large volume of basaltic magma , in the same way as cream is skimmed off the top of milk . |
| 2 | Because of the last row knitted before casting off has to be knitted at a looser tension , the linker can only be used for casting off all the stitches . |
| 3 | ‘ Reports are being prepared which suggest cash could be raised by selling off various plots of land . |
| 4 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 5 | Get the schoolmaster to stand in the puddle or a stream , preferably on a hot day when splashing could be associated with cooling off . |
| 6 | Care has to be taken with the adjacent values , which can not be obtained by reading off distances on the graph paper ; they must be obtained arithmetically . |