Example sentences of "head off [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 2 | A policeman held out his arms as if heading off a loose horse . |
| 3 | The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works , see page four . |
| 4 | The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works . |
| 5 | JOHN Major will move today to head off a threatened mutiny by the Tory Right to sink his premiership . |
| 6 | THE Government was forced to make an embarrassing about-turn over the Maastricht bill yesterday to head off a damaging defeat at the hands of an alliance of Tory Euro-rebels and opposition parties . |