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 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |
| 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 | They can tip you off about possible snags , — and about the shortcuts as well . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Some of our more charming wayside stations have been sold off as private houses . |
| 9 | For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could , at a future date , be simply floated off as private bodies . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They are parasitic on fish , feeding on the blood for three months before dropping off as miniature mussels . |
| 15 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 16 | The men began to wonder if the people whom they had laughed off as superstitious niggers were n't right after all . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She took herself off for long walks to ponder in the ice and wind and snow . |
| 22 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 23 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 24 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 25 | Occasionally they were cut off for other reasons . |
| 26 | During the late sixties and early seventies the mining companies brought shortlived booms to the areas in which they were operating , before heading off for other prospects , leaving their wastes and miners behind them . |
| 27 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 28 | Time off for public duties . |
| 29 | I told her that my ability as a golfer had secured me a good job at a finance company and a certain amount of time off for local competitions . |
| 30 | Does the authority have a sympathetic approach to those who require additional time off for domestic reasons ? |