Example sentences of "off [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , people want to dim lights or to switch them on and off during long holidays . |
| 2 | Those who use the motorway regularly like lorry drivers tend to stop off during foggy periods . |
| 3 | They cut him off during televised debates . |
| 4 | The rate of flow of gas blowing off through these vents is often surprisingly fast . |
| 5 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |
| 6 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |
| 7 | They can tip you off about possible snags , — and about the shortcuts as well . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had a few guilty twinges about ticking you off about those steps . |
| 9 | Things like how not to mouth off about any ideas you might have . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not certain , but there 's a suggestion that they have stolen British army trucks and uniforms and , with forged documents , pass themselves off as official convoys . |
| 11 | Some of our more charming wayside stations have been sold off as private houses . |
| 12 | For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could , at a future date , be simply floated off as private bodies . |
| 13 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 14 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 15 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 16 | The pioneers of the NHS accepted that it would initially be necessary to increase the resources devoted to the service , but that this would level off as medical needs were satisfied . |
| 17 | They are parasitic on fish , feeding on the blood for three months before dropping off as miniature mussels . |
| 18 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 19 | The men began to wonder if the people whom they had laughed off as superstitious niggers were n't right after all . |
| 20 | Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations . |
| 21 | And if he 's simply got tired of the pressure and gone off for six months to play golf and be with his family , they usually say he 's short of bottle . |
| 22 | In January 1968 Crawford and his family , which now included baby Lucy , set off for six months in Hollywood . |
| 23 | Yes but the , the general ones we 've got in those flip you know when I was off , when I had my cartilage removed in my knee , well I was off for six weeks so I got all the photographs and put them in order , the children and us , you know ? |
| 24 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 25 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 26 | And you just turn the gas off for five minutes |
| 27 | His beleaguered , sexless pseudo-intellectual made rewarding cut-price TV ( no better than when played off Sid James ’ superb guffawing spiv ) , and continued paying off for five years , seven BBC series , abut four key sackings by the Great Man , and at least 500 better gags than the ‘ armful ’ one . |
| 28 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 29 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 30 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |