Example sentences of "[noun] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to banning , delaying or censoring news and current affairs reports ( ibid. ) , the British government and military officials have used a variety of sanctions , notably cutting journalists off from authoritative sources of information , to ensure that recalcitrant individuals and institutions are brought back into line ( Aleut , 1978:153 ) . |
| 2 | at one time you could of done , but now , you 've got to take the guards off |
| 3 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 4 | Immediately , a cloud of mist hid them from their pursuers and , before it cleared , a messenger came and called the Dragoons off to another duty . |
| 5 | You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme . |
| 6 | Those that have invested heavily in mainframes , according to Allen , can not afford to write that investment off . |
| 7 | Answer : Take the lights , bumpers … and part of the exhaust off . |
| 8 | The country will be far from cut off , but travel may be a lenghty and expensive process . |
| 9 | There are still 45,000 subscriptions outstanding and since the cut off is now 31 March , there could be even more casualties this year ( see p 119 ) . |
| 10 | However , a cut off at age 75 gives an unrealistic picture because those patients diagnosed at the age of 70–75 ( the highest incidence ) will die at 75–80 . |
| 11 | Presumably this might happen due to the greater amount of material to be eroded before a cut off could occur . |
| 12 | An arbitrary cut off of AUAO= -0.5 separated achlorhydric from normal responses . |
| 13 | An arbitrary cut off of -0.5 mmol H + /mmol creatinine ( roughly equidistant from the 95% CI of both means , and which also corresponded to the cut off value obtained from intubation studies ) was chosen to discriminate between normochlorhydric and achlorhydric individuals . |
| 14 | What 's where where 's where 's the where 's the cut off come on this flipping phone ? |
| 15 | When weaker labelling made grain counts necessary , a cut off of 6 grains or more was used to define labelling . |
| 16 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 17 | And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past . |
| 18 | ‘ Is this a mosque or an Assembly ? ’ , the host asked , and switched the programme off . |
| 19 | Working against the background of known developments and plans for the torch company for the coming year a single idea for each area will start the programme off . |
| 20 | Well that 's that 's really what I , I started the programme off |
| 21 | Bet you could n't cut all those pictures off . |
| 22 | SAVE MONEY up to £15 off ! |
| 23 | I had 2 letters ( one about taking some more apparatus sessions ) and a cheque from Nan , so must get a reply off to her . |
| 24 | It 's staying on the dual carriageway , well I went round Steven 's to see if he thought to tow it round mine cos the already been on my back once oh no he said I 've only just walked in from work I 'm having my tea then I 'm going to bed he said , there 's no way I 'm towing no motor for the he said , just f off ! |
| 25 | ‘ Let's have a look at this rash , ’ said the doctor , helping Edward off with his shirt . |
| 26 | Just because out-to-lunch Morrissey is dropping in references to ‘ Ride A White Swan ’ and because Pulp 's singer wears David Essex-type attire and lampoons a ‘ camp stance ’ and just because the current guitar rock scene is useless ( except Sugar ) , do not fob this glitter-rock crap off on our gullible pop nation . |
| 27 | Put , let's let's turn this crap off . |
| 28 | It 's months off . ’ |
| 29 | Take a few months off . |
| 30 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |