Example sentences of "[art] [adj] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 2 | When added to the tapering off of Soviet oil production , the ‘ opportunity cost ’ to the USSR of energy exports to CMEA as opposed to the West has altered appreciably — all the more so once these exports became vital for financing her own grain and equipment imports from the West . |
| 3 | the French might have advanced into the country south of Charleroi , but the Duke , as ever , brooded over the left-hand side of the map which showed the great sweep of flat country between Mons and Tournai. that was where he feared a French advance that would cut the British off from the North Sea . |
| 4 | So it goes on , with mentions of current ripples up to 10 feet and more in height , a gravel delta 200 square miles in area , the stripping off of the loess cover over an area of almost 2000 square miles and so on . |
| 5 | Ah , yeah , yeah , so , you take that off , you take the six off for those boxes that 's a hundred , take fifteen off for the t-shirts , you 're talking eighty five pounds then . |
| 6 | The very fact of unemployment cuts the wageless off from the resources of the waged working class and its labour movement . |
| 7 | There were fifteen minutes to opening time , which meant I might just be able to head Duncan the Drunken off at the pass . |
| 8 | Asian women are the worst off of all British workers . |
| 9 | Although the amount of his fine was fixed at 2,000 marks as early as October 1292 , he remained in prison in the Tower and later in Winchester Castle till 1294 , when his release was obtained in return for a promise by Henry and his sureties to pay the fine off at the rate of 300 marks a year . |
| 10 | There 's a heck of a lot of burning off when you come to think of all the burning off of paint we 're going to have to do . |
| 11 | These factors probably explain the falling off of trade union activity among seamen in the north-east and elsewhere in the 1860s and early 1870s . |
| 12 | to insert the Welsh because John will have to send the original off for |
| 13 | Give yourself a dry off with this . |
| 14 | Erm , you know , maybe it 's something we can do in just a one off during the winter |
| 15 | There had been weakened competitiveness , endemic balance-of-payments problems , cyclical stop — go movements in the economy , and a falling off of the rate of capital accumulation . |
| 16 | Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill . |
| 17 | From the primitive algae of the Archaeozoic era , which ultimately would continue as mosses and fungi right up to the present day , there was a branching off of the lycopodiates , early ferns , cycladals and filicales . |