Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli authorities responded to Toledano 's abduction by sealing off the Gaza Strip and West Bank before conducting a widespread search throughout the territories . |
| 2 | If it is desired to emphasise the penetrating , rather reedy quality of the higher viola notes an oboe or two added in unison will do this , while two flutes in unison with the violas will produce the opposite effect by rounding off the tone . |
| 3 | The tomato plant attracts a pest called whitefly which causes harm by feeding off the tomato and leaving sugary deposits , disfiguring the fruit and causing it to go mouldy . |
| 4 | This should be linked to the dpc in the house wall by stripping off the plaster up to dpc level and applying the compound in a band just above the floor level . |
| 5 | All of these strategies , education , specific self help skills , and life-style changes , aim to reduce stress by turning off the stress tap and draining the stress glass . |
| 6 | Reinforced fencing has also had to be installed along the top of the cliff face to try and reduce the danger of people committing suicide by jumping off the top . |
| 7 | This proposal for foreign guarantees against external interference in Afghanistan was intended to strengthen the current regime in that state by sealing off the contesting forces in Afghanistan from Western and Pakistani ‘ assistance ’ while legitimising the continuation of Soviet ‘ assistance ’ . |
| 8 | Several leading City investors had opposed the proposals to dismantle British Land by selling off the larger properties and putting the smaller ones into a newly formed group , New British Land . |
| 9 | Make sure the next generation has straight hair by cutting off the crusts . |
| 10 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 11 | In Southampton seamen aboard the Olympic jumped the gun by walking off the liner on 9 June following a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship some days earlier . |
| 12 | If he had acted like any chauffeur of reasonable competence he could have stopped the fire by turning off the tap connecting the petrol tank with the carburettor . |
| 13 | The Transkei had ‘ independence ’ imposed upon it by South Africa in 1976 as part of a broader scheme to brush the whole racial problem under the carpet by packing off the black majority of the population to a series of impoverished rural ‘ homelands ’ dotted around the country . |