Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Long Beach Grand Prix founder Chris Pook arrived in Phoenix to show off elaborate plans for a purpose-built , multi-disciplinary stadium which is scheduled to be built near Dallas next year . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I was told in effect to bugger off and stop being a pest . |
| 3 | She twirled and turned in delight to show off the uniform to her mother Fran , adding : ‘ I 've already got two school bags one for my front and one for my back . ’ |
| 4 | In France the government had been forced in July to back off from a declaration that deportation measures would be stepped up [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 5 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 6 | It 's the hardest trick in pop to pull off and , sure enough , their hit-making noise has deserted them . |
| 7 | All the talk now was of the Second Front , and everyone thought that the Army would have to land in France to finish off the war . |
| 8 | Each was required in turn to break off and tell us the advertisements were coming and it did prove hard , such was the intensity of the exchange , to sustain the intellectual commitment over commercial claims for Whiskas and options . |
| 9 | At the end of 1919 Lenin showed Russian indifference by offering virtually all of Belorussia to Poland in order to stave off a Polish offensive , but the most telling instance of Russia 's attitude had already occurred after the German withdrawal in December 1918 , when the Northwestern Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party held a conference at Smolensk . |
| 10 | Isabelle must have left a legacy of frightening bitterness behind her in this place in order to set off a reaction like that . |
| 11 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 12 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 13 | The major parties in Congress in August submitted a series of specific measures to then President José Sarney designed to cut spending and to stabilize the economy in order to ward off hyperinflation . |
| 14 | In order to arrive off difficult coastlines in daylight we often had to sail at night from the Outer Isles . |
| 15 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 16 | I had prepared an unimaginative tunafish salad for the two of us in order to show off my new personal austerity programme . |
| 17 | Mozart radically altered the structure of the opera while he was writing it : in a letter to his father he explained how he reconstructed the part of Osmin , the Pasha 's Moorish servant ( a negligible role in the original libretto ) in order to show off the magnificent bass voice of the singer , Karl Ludwig Fischer , and how the part of Constanze was developed to accommodate the ‘ flexible throat ’ of the brilliant Italian coloratura soprano Caterina Cavalieri . |
| 18 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 19 | Mr Goria plans to liquidate Federconsorzi 's assets in order to pay off some of the group 's debt ( although he is unlikely to force the group into formal bankruptcy ) . |
| 20 | To realise assets in order to pay off debts . |
| 21 | To realise assets in order to pay off debts . |
| 22 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 23 | Further problems with self-investment can occur when a pension fund invests heavily in its parent company 's shares in order to fend off a takeover bid , particularly if those shares are bought at a premium during the bid , and have to be off-loaded at a loss afterwards . |
| 24 | Our arrival was just in time to take off again , so that I had no opportunity for a rest , a meal or anything else . |
| 25 | It also faces increased interest costs on its debt unless it improves its balance sheet in time to stave off a threatened downgrading of its debt by the Moody 's credit rating agency . |
| 26 | Its parallel body , the Emerging Issues Task Force , is notable for the way in which it has taken anticipatory action in time to head off expected abuses . |