Example sentences of "off [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letter to the Editor : Sell off Scots assembly building |
| 2 | Cold water washes off fresh emulsion paint , and acetone removes cellulose . |
| 3 | Selling off public sector land and buildings can be a highly lucrative activity ( in the short term ) . |
| 4 | Guy Sabini shows off another soaraway Spam exclusive |
| 5 | Sun Microsystems Inc pulled off another recruiting coup last week enticing MIPS vice president Chet Silvestri into the Sun fold as vice president , technology sales , a newly created slot reporting to Joe Roebuck , SMCC 's vice president of worldwide field operations . |
| 6 | NORMAN Whiteside makes his debut as a TV expert on Wednesday , backing Billy Bingham to pull off another World Cup miracle . |
| 7 | The only thing that would help would be if we could finish off this Leila business . ’ |
| 8 | Wilkes was escorted from the pitch by police after sending off teenage winger Barkus who lashed out after being felled as he went for goal . |
| 9 | So I reckon ( hope ! ) the Guardian has got hold of this off some Derby source who is talking out the back of their heads . |
| 10 | Inside I saw Joseph Cotten on the phone , rattling off some scare story about the Monster that Ate the City . |
| 11 | If there were large regions of anti-matter in our galaxy , we would expect to observe large quantities of radiation from the borders between the regions of matter and antimatter , where many particles would be colliding with their antiparticles , annihilating each other and giving off high energy radiation . |
| 12 | Macintyre from Milton Keynes has decided to rub shoulders to challenge the professionals at showing off and hopefully selling off high class quality work . |
| 13 | They kept off further shop talk until they were having coffee in the lounge , when Wycliffe said , ‘ Before you became an administrative officer you did two years as a DC flatfooting around . |
| 14 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |
| 15 | So why do n't you both get off prime time telly immediately and make way for the new generation ? |
| 16 | So why do n't you both get off prime time telly immediately and make way for the new generation ? |
| 17 | So why do n't you both get off prime time telly immediately and make way for the new generation ? |
| 18 | And the Prime Minister , due to meet local Tory activists during a regional tour this week , is fighting off growing party unrest over the Budget VAT levy . |
| 19 | Use a soft cloth to ease the strip into place , peeling off more backing paper as you progress . |
| 20 | What we were trying to do was to give our business a ‘ new ’ manufacturing tool that has a sharper edge with which to attack competitors and chop off more market share . |
| 21 | In relation to public examination results in Britain , Gray ( 1982 ) has documented the difficulty of interpreting the disputed results of two competing London schools , Highbury Grove and Islington Green , which sparked off considerable press comment and correspondence in early 1981 . |
| 22 | You just do n't score off first phase possession . |
| 23 | READING chairman John Madejski is to make an official complaint about referee Clive Wilkes after he sent off one Reading player and booked five . |
| 24 | The curtains at either end of the bed each has an embroidered design of a cherubic figure holding a golden trumpet ; each of these can fire off one Wind Blast spell per round . |
| 25 | MINISTERS HAVE failed to find a way of fending off Conservative Party conference pressure for extra funds to ease the introduction of the poll tax , it emerged yesterday . |
| 26 | WORLD champion boxer Chris Eubank fought off Big Breakfast show presenter Paula Yates , above , when she tried to bed him for an interview on screen yesterday . |
| 27 | Gazza laughs off big derby pressure |
| 28 | Skim off any surface froth . |
| 29 | So both men were given almost equal prominence and Le Barre virtually killed off any audience interest with a heavy speech . |
| 30 | His job is like that of a matador brought on to pitch final one or two innings when Oakland have the lead and need to kill off any opposition rally . |