Example sentences of "off [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fended off the awkward questions diplomatically . |
| 2 | Athelstan dosed his eyes , praying from whatever psalm he could remember to fend off the awful terrors which clung to the world of men . |
| 3 | To ward off the smothering tendencies of the bishops , permanent secretaries and dons , the Prime Minister had a shifting circle of advisers to protect her , and another group who would replenish the fund of radical ideas . |
| 4 | Pigs are sandwiched between rhinos and hippos in the encyclopedia , and kick off the even-toed ungulates — ‘ The most spectacular and diverse array of large , land-dwelling mammals alive today . ’ |
| 5 | He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’ |
| 6 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 7 | These treatments kill off the tiny worms in the large intestine but because the eggs may still be around for a while , everyone must be scrupulous about scrubbing their nails and ultra-hygienic when handling food . |
| 8 | Darting Grimm a cautioning glance , Jaq paid off the hired guards in local Voronovs , plus a retainer so that they would continue on call if need be . |
| 9 | There is a sequence of hard-edge air-brush paintings which tick off the various stops on the way such as York and Newcastle . |
| 10 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 11 | After a few days swanking round relatives and old schoolfriends , the novelty of showing off the new clothes and slang such as ‘ She stinks on ice , kid , ’ wore off . |
| 12 | Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets . |
| 13 | Gloria closed the sliding door , pulled down the blinds , and switched off the six lamps which Dot had just put on . |
| 14 | ( ii ) When all desired cells on a slide are located , float off the round discs of plastic onto the surface of distilled water contained in a large square glass staining dish . |
| 15 | In the summer , blues and pinks predominate but there are always plenty of white flowers , especially the white forms of cosmos and Campanula persicifolia , to set off the other colours . |
| 16 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 17 | He had never made any bones about it , and , to be honest , he was much more use out on the slopes , chatting people up , showing off the exclusive styles they sold and being a general advertisement for the place . |
| 18 | The fleas ' eggs are laid in the nest and once hatched the fleas feed off the young rabbits . |
| 19 | Willie pulled off the weighted shoes and stood in the dark hallway shivering helplessly , his teeth rattling inside his clamped jaw . |
| 20 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 21 | The Pacific boundary-line would then pass to the seaward of Tonga and Fiji , curve back westwards to New Guinea , head north and east through Guam and Iwo Jima ; pass off the eastern shores of the Japanese chain , head up to Kamchatka and rejoin the North American continent off the Aleutians . |
| 22 | By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement . |
| 23 | Granted , if socialists merely develop a list of pat answers to these questions ( nationalisation , ‘ planning ’ ) while failing to fight for more immediately realisable socialist gains outside of government they will not get much of a hearing , but equally to write off the macroeconomic questions as too difficult to speculate about is to forego the right to contest the policies of a reactionary national government . |
| 24 | This , Jenkins 's prognosis of Thursday morning ( ‘ I would put no-one off the official odds of 5–1 against England ’ ) might just be construed as tipping an England win — if they won . |
| 25 | Trim off the lower leaves when taking stem-tip cuttings of heliotrope . |
| 26 | Cut the stem cleanly just beneath a leaf joint ( unless it is one of those for which a ‘ heel ’ of old wood is best left on ) , and trim off the lower leaves . |
| 27 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 28 | Or , in Sainsbury-ad speak : Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers . |
| 29 | Doctors who are known to carry out abortions merely pay off the necessary authorities and are rarely persecuted . |
| 30 | Most observers agreed that the German side would eventually write off the Soviet debts . |