Example sentences of "off some [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 2 | But for those with loans over £30,000 where there is no tax relief , it is certainly worth considering paying off some of the mortgage - particularly since there is no clear indication of when rates might come down . |
| 3 | Frequent Bolovian references ( drawings , some rhymes , and much Bolovian dogma ) show that in the period 1927–30 Eliot found this a valuable way of letting off some of the emotional steam generated by his conversion ; serious discussions of theology are juxtaposed in this correspondence with ridiculous accounts of Bolovian religious practice , one letter dated according to the day of St Cecilia , another according to that of St Gumbolumbo . |
| 4 | The virtuous and those plagued by dogs ( not mutually exclusive groups ) can always walk off some of the effects of a pudding afterwards . |
| 5 | Mr Goria plans to liquidate Federconsorzi 's assets in order to pay off some of the group 's debt ( although he is unlikely to force the group into formal bankruptcy ) . |
| 6 | Philip took the vase and put it on the table where it had been before , wiping off some of the dust with his elbow . |
| 7 | The £25 million cost will be met by raising prices and selling off some of the little-used hostels . |
| 8 | When the going gets tougher the management can simply sell off some of the property of its partly-owned Oldham Estate subsidiary . |
| 9 | The second thing we did was to sell off some of the rare books in order to provide capital which we could apply to the capital cost of the computer system . |
| 10 | However , the model is consistent with experiments in which we blocked proliferation in the progress zone or killed off some of the cells . |
| 11 | Recently a major new canal has been made to cut off some of the tributary rivers . |
| 12 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 13 | Teddy organised small-group backings that creamed off some of the best New York musicians of the day — men such as Lester Young , Buck Clayton and Ben Webster — from the resident big bands . |
| 14 | Poachers could have been there before you and creamed off some of the rabbits , or there may have been a more innocent intrusion by a courting couple on the site . |
| 15 | Governments begin to slough off some of the wealth in taxes to ameliorate the conditions of the poor and provide public amenities for their citizens . |
| 16 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 17 | ‘ Now if you 'll promise to pay off some of the arrears you can build your shed . |
| 18 | Almost immediately , she had written ta her father 's supplier in London and made an offer to pay off some of the debt he owed . |
| 19 | These include moving all the pictures to the National Gallery ; storing the pictures in situ in a permanently closed Gallery ; selling off some of the pictures ( one such sale in 1971 caused public outcry ) ; and launching another major public appeal as in 1984–85 and 1988 ( unlikely to succeed again ) . |
| 20 | At Phaistos , there is evidence that doors closed off some of the openings . |
| 21 | It might be better to seal off some of the most polluted land — like America 's vast military estates — from the public and leave it as new wildernesses . |
| 22 | To pick off some of the wandering DEC herd , Hewlett-Packard has signed a joint marketing pact that will put Raxco Inc 's VAX/VMS data centre management products on HP 9000 Series 800 and Series 700 machines : the Rockville , Maryland company has its Security Assessment software immediately available for HP 's 9000s . |
| 23 | When the fainter member passes in front of the brighter , it naturally cuts off some of the light , and Algol ‘ winks ’ . |
| 24 | To lose weight the intake of calories from the diet must be less than required — so that the shortfall is made up by burning off some of the excess weight , which is mainly , fatty tissue deposits . |
| 25 | They then draw off some of the horse 's blood , remove the serum containing the antibodies , return the blood to the horse , and these horses are used for producing the tetanus erm antibodies . |
| 26 | Everyone says like , ‘ Leave her alone because she 's pregnant ’ , or you can get off some of the work . |
| 27 | The City Technology Colleges divert valuable resources of staff and equipment away from other schools where the need for them is great and they also cream off some of the more able pupils . |
| 28 | Besides those I have mentioned others present included Mr and Mrs Panagiotis Lemos , she was one of the hardworking joint Chairmen of the evening with Baronne Jacques de Mandat-Grancey ; Lady Russell , who was the honorary Present ; her daughter Lady Boothby , who showed off some of the lovely jewellery that was auctioned ; Mrs Anastasios Nomikos , who was Vice President , the Countess of Lichfield , . |
| 29 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 30 | From 1986 onwards , the Thatcher government raised 4–6 billion a year by selling off some of the major public corporations — British Gas , British |