Example sentences of "and off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The control of transcription — turning on and off of genes — and so controlling the synthesis of specific proteins , involves signal molecules that enter the cell nucleus from the cytoplasm . |
| 2 | The switching on and off of genes in different cells is fundamental to the programme of development . |
| 3 | Of course , switching on and off of genes does not in itself result in developmental change ; switching genes on and off acts by changing which proteins are made and this in turn alters cell behaviour by pathways that , to repeat , may be quite tortuous . |
| 4 | We did , and off to London we went on the ninth of July , for the judging , at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 5 | I said I , even I 've got up and got children up and off to school . |
| 6 | The ghosts followed me on and off to Laggan Locks and into a liquid gold evening walk over to Invergarry , to the west of the canal and Loch Oich . |
| 7 | Each room was wired on a different circuit so that the lights in it could be switched on and off at will . |
| 8 | " The cabinet diplomacy at which ( Bismarck ) excelled in the 1860s was no longer possible in the 1880s ; public opinion was beginning to influence policy making it impossible to turn friendships on and off at will . " |
| 9 | The Eclipse is exceptionally easy to control , with mains electric ignition , a slow cooking facility , a plate warmer ( in the grill area ) and an oven timer which you can pre-set to switch the oven on and off at times convenient to you ( perhaps while you 're busy entertaining guests before the meal ) . |
| 10 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 11 | Visual images flashed on and off at fractions of a second to imprint themselves on the subconscious mind . |
| 12 | I went there pretty regularly on and off on shore-leave during the early and middle fifties . |
| 13 | I worked on and off on Tremayne 's book for the rest of the morning but found it hard to concentrate . |
| 14 | Cold-blooded creatures would need very even temperatures if their intelligence was not to switch on and off with variations in the weather . |
| 15 | They beat and drove us aside , and off with team and wagon at high speed into the forest by a track that turned southwards . |
| 16 | She fucked him with enthusiasm , they laughed , they did it again and again — on and off for years . |
| 17 | They 've been going out on and off for years . ’ |
| 18 | My husband has suffered from heartburn on and off for years and has recently been diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia . |
| 19 | She 'd known its cut and thrust on and off for years now . |
| 20 | The Election had been on and off for weeks now . |
| 21 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 22 | Tell us what turns you on and off about TV gardening in our reader survey . |
| 23 | All our electric bulbs would flicker , while fluorescent tubes would flash on and off like disco lights . |
| 24 | I dozed on and off until dawn . ’ |
| 25 | The two had lived together on and off in London for 10 years . |
| 26 | Thus , if each operator learned his lines he could push the button inside his casing to make the lights flash on and off in synchronisation with the soundtrack . |
| 27 | He spent weeks on and off in poster shops . |
| 28 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |