Example sentences of "have [be] put off " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 2 | Northamptonshire 's match against Hampshire in Southampton has been put off until tomorrow because of bad weather |
| 3 | He was due to marry this weekend , but now the wedding has been put off until he 's released from prison . |
| 4 | But that debate and subsequent decision has been put off until October , when supporters of ban expect to win . |
| 5 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 6 | Very urgent business which he 'd been putting off . |
| 7 | Some critics link this with the sharp drop in foreign investment last year , though foreigners may also have been put off by the army 's killing of civilian demonstrators in Bangkok last May . |
| 8 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
| 9 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 10 | Mother Francis had been putting off her visit to Mother Clare as long as possible . |
| 11 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 12 | She said she had always been interested in science , but had been put off because everyone told her it was n't for girls , only boys . |
| 13 | At the beginning it appeared as if those who wanted to flog Europe for being an inadequate political animal were going to win , that political union had been put off still further … |
| 14 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
| 15 | Spring is also the ideal time to do all those jobs you have been putting off all winter . |
| 16 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 17 | If you would like a tiled bathroom or kitchen floor , but have been put off by having to solve the problem of tiling over a wooden floor that could flex and crack , and so shift the grouting and loosen or even split your new ceramic floor tiles , then the answer could be the new Schlüter DITRA matting , available from stockists of Homeslux Products . |
| 18 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |
| 19 | For those that have been put off by the laborious nature of the program 's drawing method the new freehand and auto trace tools offer a quick and easy method of generating high quality artwork from scanned or existing material . |
| 20 | Adrian Newman , a director of Knottingley-based Paul Caddick , says potential tenants for the CADCAM office scheme have been put off by poor access into the development . |
| 21 | So a lot of people have been put off have they do you think |