Example sentences of "off [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He declined the offer of a lift home , wished me an interesting journey , and set off through a light Prague drizzle . |
| 2 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |
| 3 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |
| 4 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 5 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 6 | BRITISH workers have been laid off as a fly-the-flag mission to Seville 's Expo '92 flopped . |
| 7 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 8 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 9 | Chris Hinsley started off as a successful commercial author of arcade games for home computers , and many of Taos 's concepts spring from his original need to produce code that would transfer easily between a plethora of machines . |
| 10 | Chris Hinsley started off as a successful commercial author of arcade games for home computers , and many of Taos 's concepts spring from his original need to produce code that would transfer easily between a plethora of machines . |
| 11 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 12 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 13 | He took a wagonload of the spoiled crop to San Francisco and passed it off as a Peruvian delicacy . |
| 14 | And then a percent I could get you a percent off as a first time buyer . |
| 15 | Beaumont is upset that Jodami 's comfortable two lengths defeat of Rushing Wild is being written off as a sub-standard Gold Cup in some quarters . |
| 16 | Everyone laughed it off as a typical piece of board-room exaggeration . |
| 17 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 18 | For a long time the Drus were passed off as a mere shoulder of the greater Aiguille Verte . |
| 19 | Thus , ( 43 ) has the same ambiguity as ( 39 ) between predicate qualifier , giving the " cosmetic " version , and this new pattern of interpretation , which must correspond to the " unacquainted " meaning , and the distinction between the two senses of sentences like ( 39 ) should not be written off as a mere matter of " nuances of meaning " , but instead shows one sequence of surface syntax answering to two different intensional patterns . |
| 20 | It is still known as The Street and , after rejoining the A683 , again departs from it at the site of an old toll bar , branching off as a rough track to visit the hamlet of Stennerskeugh . |
| 21 | She broke off as a blue lightning flash coincided with an ear-shattering thunder clap and released a fresh torrent of rain . |
| 22 | The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood . |
| 23 | In one case that I know of , a subsidiary of a major UK company got itself into difficulty through totally misunderstanding its product costs as engineering costs , written off as a lump-sum period cost , increased with the production of more advanced products . |
| 24 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 25 | In this way , what might have started off as a cyclical deficit will soon become a structural deficit unless action is taken to bring borrowing down . |
| 26 | As the temperature rises the mercury is driven off as a toxic white gas . |
| 27 | He fell victim to one of the oldest tricks in the book , sent off as a crafty Belgian took a dive at his feet . |
| 28 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 29 | In such situations , the most vital point is to resist any kind of planning application for development that will fragment the grounds — for example , permission to build houses in a walled garden which can ( and will ) be sold off as a separate development . |
| 30 | He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move . |