Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is whether ownership of the national track should be split off from the running of services , as recommended by Kenneth Irvine of the Adam Smith Institute . |
| 2 | The instructions warn that if the stove burns with a high yellow flame it should be turned off at the fuel valve and allowed to cool . |
| 3 | Costs which do not qualify as issue costs should be written off to the profit and loss account as incurred . |
| 4 | The SORP requires that advances should be written off to the extent that it appears there is no realistic prospect of recovery . |
| 5 | The room number should be ticked off on the arrivals and departures list and the guests ' names entered on the tabular ledger and their bills started . |
| 6 | Mr Annan 's idea is that these planners — civilians as well as military men — should not remain on their bottoms in New York but should be sent off to the field to implement the operations they planned . |
| 7 | Nor does Pearce believe up-and-coming managers should be put off by the apparent decline in moral standards of business . |
| 8 | The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) . |
| 9 | As soon as a girl reaches puberty , which is celebrated as a life cycle rite , she must be manned off outside the family and its clan group . |
| 10 | A FURIOUS housewife took three workmen hostage after being told her heating must be turned off until the New Year . |
| 11 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 12 | Digesting food uses up about 20 per cent of our calorie intake but the rest must be worked off by the energy we expend while living our lives . |
| 13 | Without any application to the court , the mortgagee , if his mortgage is a conveyance of the legal estate or ownership , may take possession ; but this course is hazardous , since he may be called upon in a redemption action to account strictly not only for profits actually received by him , but also for those which he might but for his default have received , and all such profits , so far as they exceed the interest due for the time being , must be set off against the principal . |
| 14 | Times was hard , and he had the advantage over the insurance company of knowing that his profits might be tapering off in the near future , and he thinks , ah , I 'll get , er , I 'll take out a Permanent Health Insurance , based on my present income to protect seventy-five , because I know in about three or four years time , my income would have gone down to about sixty per cent of what it is , so . |
| 15 | The concept of indirect discrimination was , according to the councils , at first unfamiliar to police , who also saw no reason why black candidates might be put off by the former question three — which asked the country of origin of spouse or lover 's parents . |
| 16 | Girobank also makes loans , with the attraction for people who might be put off by the image of conventional banks that the transaction is entirely postal . |
| 17 | I have heard it suggested that there is some danger that prospective buyers might be put off by the idea that their units have been used in this way . |
| 18 | The mare will look after the foal until he 's at least five weeks old and then he 'll be weaned off in the natural way . |
| 19 | And then you 'll be finished off in the sculleries . |
| 20 | That way if you 're really keen you can learn something worthwhile — and if you 're just messing about you 'll be put off by the price . |
| 21 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 22 | By directing the pointer at a particular star , its altitude could be read off against the scale on the rim to an accuracy of about one degree . |
| 23 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 24 | The same dirt could be burnt off by the use of heat which is a method available in some domestic ‘ self cleaning ’ ovens . |
| 25 | Reports suggest that up to 5,000 of Olivetti 's 46,000 staff could be laid off under the company 's latest restructuring plan for the coming year . |
| 26 | I said to Dolly that if I did n't do something you 'd be cut off from the world for a week or more . |
| 27 | No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 28 | Others may be put off by the complicated forms . |
| 29 | This lengthy and expensive process is particularly unsuitable when the trustee suspects the assets may be sold off by the bankrupt or grabbed by local creditors . |
| 30 | Shoes would be kicked off beneath the desks and lie untidily askew . |