Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] off [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | initiation is focused upon the lengthy constraint of boys , during which period the boys are separated off from female society , taught male solidarity , bellicosity , and endurance , and trained to accept the dominance of older groups of men ; |
| 2 | Thoughtful people who are not able to buy the simplistic analysis are written off with contemptuous slogans like ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you are part of the problem ’ . |
| 3 | This is necessary because many overhead costs are not included in work in progress but are written off against current profits each year ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 4 | Otherwise they are syphoned off into mysterious Liechtenstein trusts , or are invested in companies whose identities are kept secret . |
| 5 | ( You can still buy one cheap in the car park round the corner from Victoria as they 're auctioned off by young Ozzers looking for the fare home . ) |
| 6 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 7 | The new separator relies on electrophoresis : different molecules are pulled off in different directions toward positive or negative electrodes . |
| 8 | I 'm cut off from any means of communication with home base . |
| 9 | I 'm pissed off with that thing stuck up me nose . |
| 10 | The populations that live on these sky islands are cut off from each other , and evolve independently . |
| 11 | Another central element in Braverman 's thesis is that management , in order to achieve their objective of tight control over labour , not only fragment jobs horizontally — in the sense that different physical elements of the same task are split off from each other to be done by separate individuals — but fragment jobs vertically , as well . |
| 12 | Mr Fenney also has been ordered to comply with a landscaping scheme ; close the centre by 9pm every evening ; and make sure that his floodlights are switched off by that time . |
| 13 | Both of these size benefits are traded off against juvenile mortality ; longer juvenile life increases size , but reduces chances of reaching adulthood . |