Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that debate and subsequent decision has been put off until October , when supporters of ban expect to win . |
| 2 | The styling has been rounded off at each end and VW house-style rectangular headlights have been fitted . |
| 3 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 4 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 5 | For the time being , the American peace plan has been killed off by the Labour Party 's failure to form a government . |
| 6 | A little boy had been sent off to a birthday party all dressed up in his best clothes and clutching a present for his school friend . |
| 7 | An area at the far end of the hall had been screened off as a waiting-room and now Bourne escorted Matthew between the double row of tables , most of them empty . |
| 8 | The Ossis have been fobbed off with one middling portfolio , transport , and two lightweight ones . |
| 9 | The new business has been split off from IBM Personal Systems Business Europe , and is claimed to be one of the world 's largest software businesses ; operations are currently being formed in individual European countries . |
| 10 | In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files . |
| 11 | Lenin wishes to explain why it was that although the ‘ peaceful mask ’ of capitalism had been torn off in all the countries of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century , and popular discontent was widespread , it was only in Russia that a successful revolution occurred . |
| 12 | Many analysts recalled that the 1964 military coup had been triggered off by , among other things , similar accusations of congressional abuse and corruption . |
| 13 | Participants in the national conference had been bought off by Mobutu , he said , adding that the best hope for Zaïre lay in " genuine power-sharing between Mobutu and the opposition " . |
| 14 | When the Countess tried to calm her , explaining the picture had been sent off to be cleaned , Diana refused to believe her . |
| 15 | The operational station — the engineering workshop and so " on which was previously accommodated within the bus station has been shunted off to a glorified shed on what can best be described as a piece of waste ground " . |
| 16 | Too often his reputation as an architect has been written off on the basis of very late works which were more the work of his nephew , MacVicar Anderson , and his chief clerk , Colling , under his direction . |
| 17 | In his opinion there was no doubt that Miss Ward 's head had been cut off with a single blow from a sharp instrument . |
| 18 | This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners . |
| 19 | Part of the cathedral had been roped off as a theatre , a very Sussex touch . |
| 20 | He disclosed that electricity supplies to the compound had been turned off on Friday . |
| 21 | But both he and the young lord had been carried off by smallpox , leaving this estranged son of the deceased youngest brother to inherit . |
| 22 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
| 23 | Some drivers whose tyre tread is below the new legal limit have been let off with a caution … others face prosecution . |
| 24 | There is no cover under this section where the freezer plug has been accidentally removed or where the appliance has been switched off in error . |
| 25 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 26 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 27 | Within half and hour , Curtis learned his man had been driven off in a green Cadillac by the unfortunate owner of the car , whom he had taken hostage at gun point . |
| 28 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 29 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 30 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |