Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |
| 2 | It has also helped write rules for community cable access and worked to ensure that the poor are not cut off from the benefits of new telephone technologies . |
| 3 | The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings . |
| 4 | Sure , they are soon going off into the night , their lights flickering and fading , but it will be with dignity . |
| 5 | If we 're doing add we 're just starting off with the counting numbers . |
| 6 | The shoots are always cut off near the ground . |
| 7 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 8 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |
| 9 | Shorter wavelengths are felt by us as heat , and are also given off in the warmth of our bodies . |
| 10 | Most simply give themselves up , and , in the case of those who have done no more than poach the odd buck for a little bushmeat , are often let off with a caution . |
| 11 | On the whole , most of us lead very sedentary lives these days and are often put off by the thought of taking exercise . |
| 12 | They can be so noisy that they are often switched off during an autopsy , increasing the level of air pollution and the risk of acquisition of air-borne infections . |
| 13 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 14 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 15 | Similarly the " stopping rate " is the maximum stepping rate which can be suddenly switched off without the motor overshooting the target position . |
| 16 | Any surplus glue can be easily wiped off with a rag and then with solvent . |
| 17 | I 'm always going off into a trance . |
| 18 | Ageism seems to be partly triggered off by a fear of becoming old and dependent , and so a reluctance to identify or even empathise with the oldest people . |
| 19 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 20 | The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division . |
| 21 | Significantly , the greeting trill is normally done when they are on the move , usually when they have come in from outside and are about to move off towards the place where they expect food to be waiting . |
| 22 | In FI , such people are tolerated by some : either because they are good company or because they provide ‘ services ’ , whether these be the producing of Mercedes cars which are then flogged off at a profit or the procuring of girls . |
| 23 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 24 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 25 | Permanent arrears were normally written off at a bishop 's death , so the figures give some indication of the rate at which they accumulated . |
| 26 | Where reefs are notably wider than the average it may be assumed that there the corals were not killed off during the Pleistocene . |
| 27 | In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat . |
| 28 | After washing , twist taps were not turned off with the paper towel ; and where elbow taps were available , they were used properly only four times ; and when disposing of the paper towel in foot-operated pedal bins , nurses used their hands to open and close the bins . |
| 29 | What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations . |
| 30 | Police in Cam gave chase for a short distance but were easily shaken off by the robbers stolen Sierra Cosworth . |