Example sentences of "off other " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the union publishes a special Notice in its magazine warning members about the activities of a promoter , record company or contact agency , this not only informs members , it also puts off other unscrupulous operators . |
| 2 | His main preoccupation becomes the demonstration of prowess through chasing off other males that attempt to gain access to his females . |
| 3 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 4 | Switch off other locking keys shown in the Status Line ( see page 5 ) . |
| 5 | He 's not self-promoting like those other cunt directors and conductors and producers who just live off other people 's talent . |
| 6 | Part of my job as a media commentator is to slag off other journalists — it 's what makes it all worthwhile — and I 've put knees into the groins of such eminences as Alastair Burnet , Peter Sissons and Donald Trelford , without so much as a raised eyebrow in Kingsland or City roads . |
| 7 | A separate oxygen analyser directly below screen checks oxygen levels and cuts off other gases if supply fails . |
| 8 | A soft feather duster need be their only guardian ; and , anyway , a thin layer of dust keeps off other dust . |
| 9 | It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu . |
| 10 | Your skin is being bombarded with sunrays which are scattered and reflected off other surfaces . |
| 11 | KYLIE MINOGUE has blasted Madonna for ripping off other people 's styles . |
| 12 | Japan lived off other nations ' research and development , and , in practice , subsidized exports while protecting against imports . |
| 13 | His wickets ( 383 ) and catches off other bowlers thus aggregate to 492 . |
| 14 | The high temperatures also killed off other views , such as that Venus was covered in oil . |
| 15 | The Return key which denotes the start of the new paragraph can also trigger off other paragraph attributes . |
| 16 | State-centred , transnational relations and neo-Marxist approaches , while often interesting and fruitful , tend to close off other interesting and fruitful avenues of theory and research . |
| 17 | As the brood grows , workers chew through septa in the shoots and kill or seal off other queens , after which the whole tree is taken over . |
| 18 | Is this because stylistics feeds off other , more clearly defined , areas within linguistics rather like a poor relation , or because it is in some sense at the interface of these other disciplines ? |