Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some British Gypsum customers were eager to use EDI , others have been less quick off the mark , but the company is doing some proselytising . |
| 2 | THE Poll Tax administration bandits are so quick off the mark we should let them handle care allowances and benefit claims . |
| 3 | And so quick off the mark . |
| 4 | Hawley says : ‘ That 's because when he was at Hunslet Parkside he used to score four or five tries a match and was so quick off the mark that none of his team-mates could keep up with him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ NEW BOY DEANE SO QUICK OFF THE MARK ’ |
| 6 | Because the wind was so cold off the Menai Straits do you see . |
| 7 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 8 | Why did it have to be so far off the ground ? |
| 9 | so they refused to do it up , well the result was over the years the pot holes down to the sites got bigger and they 're so far off the road from |
| 10 | One of the problems is at this very stage that the act is so new off the statute book that authorities , at the moment , under all the other pressures they 're having to meet , are only just beginning to put together their new policies . |
| 11 | Perhaps bungy-jumping off the Dingli Cliffs ? |
| 12 | ‘ A little quick off the mark there , madam , ’ smiled the auctioneer . |
| 13 | ‘ I think the better the players are treated in these respects , the more enthusiastic is their response to the challenges before them , ’ points out McGilligan , ‘ Let's face it , the whole sport has become more professional off the field — and it 's good to see it — so I do n't think too many people would begrudge players a few wee perks . ’ |
| 14 | In the first take we all ran totally naked off the set — Ken , nostrils flaring as camp as ever — into a whole group of girls who had heard it was going to happen . |
| 15 | Crewe Alexander were also quick off the mark , Hignett giving them a tenth minute lead at home to Rotherham , and the only goal of the game puts Crewe into round five . |
| 16 | That Meninga would receive overtures from Knowsley Road was one of the more predictable consequences of Canberra 's qualification for Old Trafford , but Hull were almost as quick off the mark with an approach for Chris O'Sullivan , and other players have apparently been contacted . |
| 17 | With the likes of Martin Amis ( still the leader of the pack — a fine first of The Rachel Papers could now fetch £500 ) , Julian Barnes , Dick Francis , Wendy Cope , John Mortimer , Kazuo Ishiguro , Tom Stoppard and quite a few more , one has to be fairly quick off the mark ; with others , a more leisurely approach is adopted , either because the first edition tends to hang about , or — in such cases as le Carré and Forsyth — when the initial print runs are so huge as to discourage panic buying . |
| 18 | He is fast quick off the mark when he gets going |
| 19 | She seems a little slow off the mark when she asserts that the attempt to control drugs became ‘ a War only when crack emrged ’ . |
| 20 | A LEADING North Sea oil company yesterday declared its licence to explore the depths of Liverpool Bay was among the most sought-after off the UK coast . |
| 21 | From what I remember you were pretty quick off the starting line when the lights flashed green . ’ |
| 22 | Do not be tempted to take a flat that is too high off the ground and requires the use of a lift . |
| 23 | It looks very high off the ground . |
| 24 | Then he rushed in for his money , a little too quick off the mark … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You were very quick off the mark , were n't you ? |
| 26 | During take-offs and landings , some Flying Control personnel would occupy a caravan placed near the start of the runway being used , and they would fire green or red flares to let the aircraft know if they were cleared to land or take-off , and on this occasion one of the men was very quick off the mark , saw the crash and was immediately on the spot , helping the crew to get out of the burning aircraft . |
| 27 | Behind his thick spectacles , his eyes positively blazed at the sight of a completed chart just waiting to have lines drawn on it , and he was always very quick off the mark with his instant weather forecasts whenever any aircrews were planning a jaunt somewhere . |
| 28 | By rights , Kate — my partner 's secretary — should have been sitting at a desk in the foyer doing the initial vetting , but you beat us to it ; you were very quick off the mark . |
| 29 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 30 | It 's not very far off the beaten track |