Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have been [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 2 | In the ensuing raid by our officers , who had been tipped off about the smuggling run , a pitched battle between our men and the smugglers had led to several amusing incidents , related to us by local officers . |
| 3 | Another notable seizure made by Vigilant was as a result of an operation in 1969 , initiated by the Investigation Branch who had been tipped off by their Dutch colleagues that a suspected smuggling vessel had left Flushing bound for the Kent coast . |
| 4 | They made up one of the ten elite ‘ Strike Force ’ teams , all top field operatives who had been siphoned off from police , military and intelligence services around the world . |
| 5 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |
| 6 | Lanchester , who have been rained off in two matches this season , are at Ushaw Moor , while Sedgefield take on Tudhoe . |