Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 2 | Some in the Republic believe , though , that the decision to call off the tours would suit the SARU , who have been made aware that three matches in four days in Bucharest in the middle of June followed by two in a week in Rome could leave very few survivors from heat stroke . |
| 3 | The decision to sell off the yards come nearly four months after Devonport won a contract to refit Trident submarines against competition from Rosyth . |
| 4 | Flailing at the air where he 'd been , she struck out at the switch to turn off the PA that had suddenly inexplicably turned itself on . |
| 5 | Flailing at the air where he 'd been , she struck out at the switch to turn off the PA that had suddenly inexplicably turned itself on . |
| 6 | This started the defendant to go off the rails . ’ |
| 7 | Announcing the plan to sell off the Rosyth and Devonport dockyards , Mr Rifkind said that privatization would benefit the Navy , the taxpayers and the yards themselves . |
| 8 | With an unhappy sigh , Mrs McMahon got out at the crossroads , and , feeling choked , Ellie drove on to the hall to drop off the suit , and collect her own luggage . |
| 9 | Before starting the long retreat we waited till dark for the sun to go off the slopes , for the stones and avalanche slopes to re-freeze , and possibly because the sight was too horrible to contemplate . |
| 10 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 11 | Generally in relation to the mortgage of movables , it recommended a simpler scheme , together ‘ with power to the lender to sell off the security in the event of the borrower failing to repay , after giving him due notice ’ . |
| 12 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 13 | Using a sharp knife , shave a little off the sides of the body to round off the edges slightly . |
| 14 | Servicing valves should be fitted in both the inlet and outlet pipes of the softener so that it can be removed or isolated for maintenance without the need to turn off the mains water supply . |
| 15 | Drop the nozzle back on the surface to break off the icing and pull away neatly . |
| 16 | But in the Edwardian love story , Howards End , her co-star is Sir Anthony Hopkins and it gives her the chance to shrug off the Olivier/Leigh and Burton/Taylor labels she and Branagh have collected . |
| 17 | Macmillan used the comment to shrug off the resignations of Peter Thorneycroft , his Chancellor , Nigel Birch and Enoch Powell , over public spending . |
| 18 | A succession of printers led the paper by 1968 to a Carlisle outpost of the Baring Family where , once a fortnight , Robins and Levy would arrive and wait overnight for the paper to roll off the presses . |
| 19 | ‘ None of us expected the single to take off the way it did , ’ adds Dermot . |
| 20 | On Jan. 23 Sikh militants ambushed Joshi 's cavalcade near the town of Jullunder in Punjab , killing five people , after the BJP rejected a last-minute appeal by the government to call off the march on the grounds that it could not guarantee protection against attacks by Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 21 | He approached the Cheetah and spoke to its pilot , who was still in his seat and conscious ; the instructor turned off the master switch and instructed the pilot to turn off the fuel cock . |
| 22 | Probation officer Sylvia Jones told the bench that Bradley was an ‘ intelligent skilled man who does n't have the motivation to stay off the drink . ’ |
| 23 | In the absence of earlier cases to rely upon , the judge simply invented a new tort , and granted an injunction compelling the union to call off the pickets . |
| 24 | For many people , however , one of the bonuses of retirement is the ability to get off the treadmill and stop rushing . |
| 25 | Both judges of the Divisional Court , Cave and Wills JJ. , considered that the mere existence of the power to cut off the water supply without any threat to exercise that power did not prevent the payment from being voluntary . |
| 26 | As one tutor put it : ‘ The temptation to put off the evil day is irresistible for most people . |
| 27 | On the eve of the agreement to call off the dispute the Yorkshire Factory Times commented that the wage retreat had at last ‘ been stopped ’ . |
| 28 | Angle iron can be used to cap the side rails for additional protection and a hood could be suspended over the fire to draw off the smoke if desired . |
| 29 | However , once up there the temptation to carry on is too strong , so choose a day early in the summer if you have no will-power to stave off the seduction of the tops . |
| 30 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |