Example sentences of "off the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By killing off the stable element of the fictional character , she abandons a realist notion of the individual identity and the narrative norms which subtend it , freeing the way for a concept of subjectivity and a form of writing in which these factors do not come into play . |
| 2 | For dry lining , the plasterboards used are the type with tapered edges which allow a reinforcing tape and filler to be used to finish off the joint flush with the board surface . |
| 3 | An aria sparked off the Belgian revolution , and the Monnaie , where it all began , is now home to an excellent opera company . |
| 4 | TOG O' WAR ace Steve Churchill has pulled off the greatest prize — a world championship . |
| 5 | TURKEY will be on an incredible £12,000-a-man bonus to pull off the greatest result in their football history at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 6 | Laugh off the endless epithetising of everyone who crosses his path — his ‘ pretty elder daughter ’ , the ‘ renowned tailor ’ , even my own guest appearance as ‘ that respected mountaineer ’ ; roar aloud at the over-the-topness of the following : ‘ That evening at dinner the flap of our tent opened and in strode a figure of heroic majesty . |
| 7 | He switched off the mauve light . |
| 8 | Press down the edges to seal and trim off the excess pastry . |
| 9 | Scrape off the excess sauce . |
| 10 | ( b ) Half fill the basket with soil/compost and trim off the excess hessian . |
| 11 | Gregory 's programme of radical reform depended upon the law and a renewed interest in legal study and declaration provided the impetus which sparked off the legal renaissance of the twelfth century . |
| 12 | Those Right-Ons who had written off the Labour Party for ever now began to chew humble pie , and were drawn to Livingstone 's GLC as though to a magnet . |
| 13 | The reader has identified with the person you have put at the centre of your story and that person must , for the reader 's satisfaction , bring off the final solution . |
| 14 | When they set off the following year on a tour of Australia and New Zealand , William , as well as two nannies and acres of baggage , went too . |
| 15 | Before she set off the following morning , she 'd visited the Maison du Vin , which was housed in a former medieval monastery . |
| 16 | And yesterday , TACP Design 's practice partner Brian Evans , a former city councillor and conservation work pioneer , showed off the prestigious trophy he received at the RICS Awards 1992 ceremony in London . |
| 17 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 18 | At last the head moved , following the malevolent gaze of his eyes , and D'Arcy could see the hair swept back off the sallow forehead , gathered in a ponytail at the back . |
| 19 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 20 | To win Test matches , one has to take wickets consistently , and a high proportion of chances come off the outside edge of the bat . |
| 21 | The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life . |
| 22 | Given a large corpse of anything on the bottom of the Amazon or even the Thames , most fish will ‘ attack ’ and gnaw off the odd bit . |
| 23 | These pins are used to hold the coils on the board ; snip off the odd pin on that side of the bobbin which has three pins . |
| 24 | If it does not kill off the golden goose , it will certainly let it starve to death through neglect . |
| 25 | Potentilla ‘ Gibson 's Scarlet ’ will set off the golden conifer |
| 26 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 27 | OLYMPIC hero Seb Coe shows off the new girl in his life … and reveals that he 's just Maddy about her . |
| 28 | Galerie St Etienne starts off the new year on a somewhat lugubrious note with a show called ‘ The Dance of Death : Images of Mortality in German Art ’ . |
| 29 | Apart from the champagne spilled over the bow , there was plenty consumed in a more conventional fashion as the crew showed off the new boat for the first time . |
| 30 | In a display of bravado , the IRA staged a publicity stunt , showing off the new device to two freelance journalists . |