Example sentences of "be [v-ing] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 2 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 3 | You 'll be hanging off with that |
| 4 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 5 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 6 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 7 | ‘ Better hurry , or they 'll soon be knocking off for lunch . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll be pushing off to bed I think , ’ he said , glancing at the clock and his watch . |
| 9 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 10 | And the self same people who shake their heads and utter these remarks are the ones who will be heading off to the Med or Florida on their holidays next year , doubtless piloted there by someone up front who began his or her career on a little grass strip flying those little aeroplanes that look so flimsy . |
| 11 | And now the Newtownards man will be heading off for an all expenses paid weekend at the four star Castle Troy Hotel in Limerick , courtesy of competition organisers Co-Operation North . |
| 12 | That policy appears to be paying off in as much the national survey run at the beginning of last year showed some seventy two percent of businesses were still there after eighteen months . |
| 13 | the fastest time down the hill at Eastnor for those that managed to stay on was about one minute. , .16 seconds … the top 16 will be racing off for the champions crown but win or lose … fast or slow … they all seem to enjoy themselves … so what 's the fun of it … |
| 14 | the fastest time down the hill at Eastnor for those that managed to stay on was about one minute. , .16 seconds … the top 16 will be racing off for the champions crown but win or lose … fast or slow … they all seem to enjoy themselves … so what 's the fun of it … |
| 15 | Because the light would just be going off into nothing and not coming back . |
| 16 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 17 | " Everybody seems to be going off to the wedding-breakfast . |
| 18 | He wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 19 | You wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 20 | So she 's gon na be going off to , to Australia erm , as before with no |
| 21 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |
| 22 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 23 | I do n't think she 'll be staying off for any great length of time , with the open day coming up I think she 'll be |
| 24 | Also on the competition front one lucky reader will be flying off to the sunny Bahamas for her honeymoon — so hurry up and enter , it might just be you ! |
| 25 | Potential suitors are believed to be holding off from making outright bids for fear that there may be further black holes in Ferranti 's balance sheet . |
| 26 | Oh well she 'll be getting off in . |
| 27 | P.P.S. The magic with the beermats will be wearing off around now . |
| 28 | So oh after I retired some years , we have a dinner every year you see it 'll be it 'll be coming off in December . |
| 29 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 30 | Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress . |