Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 2 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 3 | This requires the cost of unsuccessful wells to be written off directly in the profit and loss account , instead of affecting longer-term profitability . |
| 4 | However , rather than realising a £17m loss , Tootal 's figures show a £3.4m profit , with most of the difference written off earlier through the balance sheet . |
| 5 | Any thoughtful linguist must wonder from time to time if such a legacy can have been shaken off completely in the relatively short time during which scientific linguistics has existed . |
| 6 | The conclusion was that " the School has fallen off lamentably in the higher branches of education " . |
| 7 | In absolute levels , we have fallen off only from the historically high 1980 figures . |
| 8 | Its autumn survey says that home owners feel that prices have now bottomed out , even though activity has fallen off significantly since the summer . |
| 9 | Direct overseas investment has fallen off sharply since the 1989/90 peak . |
| 10 | It reminded Maggie of a tooth broken off just above the gum . |
| 11 | The wounded who seemed to have a chance of recovery were left on the jeeps and were sped off down through the village to the dressing stations on the other side of the River Orne . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that we returned with an impression of economic chaos — and the impression that , although aid from this country and others is welcomed , it is feared that too much is being siphoned off on to the black market ? |
| 13 | Arrears were to have been resolved by the introduction of the " unified housing benefit " , according to which tenants on supplementary benefit were to be relieved of responsibility for paying their rent by having it siphoned off directly by the DHSS . |
| 14 | Thus the church and its site were purchased for £20,000 in 1979 by Waverly District Council , while the adjacent church hall was sold off separately by the local diocese for conversion into two small private dwellings . |
| 15 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |
| 16 | Shower mixers take their supply from the bathroom hot and cold pipes ( thermostatic shower mixers do not run hot when cold water is drawn off elsewhere in the house ) . |
| 17 | He 'd got off lightly with the men earlier . |
| 18 | These stones , contrasting in shape and colour and radiating light , are shown off admirably by the severe but wearable linear design . |
| 19 | Duane 's artistic bent has been shown off frequently in the group 's Invasion of The Wedding Present fanzine . |
| 20 | Sparked off undoubtedly by the announcement that chairman and m.d . |
| 21 | I wondered sometimes if the effects of some sedative given perhaps the night before had not worn off completely by the time I came . |
| 22 | After his experiences photographing there , he found it very difficult to continue the rather dull life of a colonial portraitist , and soon set off again for the strange and exotic land of Siam . |
| 23 | The luxurious cream decor is set off beautifully by the patterned curtains . |
| 24 | Nutty discussed the problem one night with Biddy after the others had set off back to the factory . |
| 25 | It was getting late when , prompted by the thought of having to start work next morning , she paid her bill and reluctantly set off back to the hotel . |
| 26 | It meant he 'd been laid off again at the stocking factory . |
| 27 | His vision of the future also included a reduction in university support services for authors ; fewer editors working on more books ; cheaper typesetting and data processing costs ; significantly reduced print runs ( ‘ I expect 50 copies will be considered a large run for some titles ’ ) ; electronic customer catalogues ; improved customer service ; a merging of the jobs of copy editor , designer and production controller ; and dramatically improved distribution ( ‘ the 10 minute book run off locally in the shop could soon be a reality ’ ) . |
| 28 | Both these beautiful fish have a deep body , smoothly tapering to a pointed , central mouth at the front ( nothing new in that arrangement ! ) , and with the back end almost cut off vertically from the two divisions of the dorsal and anal fins . |
| 29 | He saw Dad feeling his way down the last flight of stairs , the pyjamas , the slippers , the blue cardigan cut off just above the elbows , feeling his way through some kind of thick barbiturate mist . |
| 30 | She was cut off tragically at the height of her powers , but she had already made her mark : a crucial contribution to one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century , and work on two major biological problems and the techniques for solving them , that helped lay the foundations of structural molecular biology . |