Example sentences of "be [verb] off [prep] any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no ‘ mass audience ’ of uncritical couch potatoes ready to be fobbed off with any old rubbish . |
| 2 | I do n't think she 'll be staying off for any great length of time , with the open day coming up I think she 'll be |
| 3 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |
| 4 | The attacks came without warning and did n't seem to be set off by any direct thought about being moved . |
| 5 | But do n't be put off by any early setbacks because some simple experimentation will soon determine the best way of producing boards with this technique . |
| 6 | Deep down , he knew that she would be put off by any direct approach . |
| 7 | Similar variations of chopping behaviour with rotor position occur at other current levels , so instead of monitoring chopping in an excited phase it can be convenient to excite , at a very low current level , a phase which would normally be switched off at any particular time . |