Example sentences of "[adv] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So off to the therapist , the new-age aquarian bubble bath and Christianity . |
| 2 | Jessamy scrambled in beside him , then let out a silent sigh of relief as the car moved swiftly off down the drive , leaving the house behind them . |
| 3 | I crossed the gravel and started idly off through the trees to the east . |
| 4 | You give a good firm aid that would have your youngster wandering gently off to the left and suddenly find yourself falling off the side because the old hand did a sharp left turn ! |
| 5 | If the Government spends less than the budget says it would spend during the year , then it is obviously better off at the end of the year and can then spend more or repay borrowings or reduce taxes . |
| 6 | At the same time the first family could be no better off as every pound gained is deducted from income support . |
| 7 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 8 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 9 | If defectors stayed at home the intelligence world would be much better off as a result . |
| 10 | I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’ |
| 11 | First it is a game which creates wealth through the process of production exchange and all players in the game ( i.e. those supplying labour services , property and capital ) are better off as a result of it . |
| 12 | You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile , so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result . |
| 13 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 14 | The reply by the minister was a direct echo of Mary Carpenter : ‘ The principle behind this provision in the bill is that parents should be required — if their means so permit — to pay for their child 's board and lodging , so that they are in no way better off as a result of the child 's being in care . ’ |
| 15 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 16 | SULTRY Najma Akhtar was voted most popular international artist in the UK Asian Pop Awards this week — but her mother STILL thinks she 'd be better off as a doctor or a chemical engineer . |
| 17 | On reflection , the catering industry may well be much better off as a result of the Government 's proposals for a self-regulatory approach , but it all depends at the end of the day on how well it gets its act together , using Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment systems to identify the problem areas . |
| 18 | Given that individuals undertake exchange voluntarily , it is presumed that they must thereby be no worse off and that at least one party to the exchange is better off as a result . |
| 19 | The Government 's claim that students are better off as a result of student loans simply is not true ; nor is it true that loans make up for the loss of income support and housing benefit . |
| 20 | Is it not better off as a hidden surprise to be discovered by the interested tourist ? |
| 21 | Instead of asking whether the owners of the enterprise will become better off as the result of the firm 's undertaking productive opportunities , the accountant asks whether society as a whole will become better off by undertaking this project rather than not undertaking it , or by undertaking instead any of a number of alternative projects . |
| 22 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 23 | Bank Assistants can not afford to live on their current salaries and , as has been pointed out , a Bank assistant who also happens to be a bread winner would be better off on the Dole ! |
| 24 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
| 25 | They include Another Coral , 8lb better off for the seven lengths he was beaten by Tipping Tim in the Mackeson , Martin Pipe 's Milford Quay , the progressive Sacre d'Or and the 1989 Champion Hurdler Beech Road . |
| 26 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 27 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 28 | If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird . |
| 29 | If the latter , we 're a lot better off with a restrained government than with a rampant one . |
| 30 | He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce . |