Example sentences of "be [vb pp] off at any " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search . |
| 4 | The challenge is to play either game against the timer , which can be switched off at any time if the child wants to check a word or letter |
| 5 | Similar variations of chopping behaviour with rotor position occur at other current levels , so instead of monitoring chopping in an excited phase it can be convenient to excite , at a very low current level , a phase which would normally be switched off at any particular time . |