Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stage 4 is the familiar multiplier , only this time triggered off by a change in imports and exports . |
| 2 | The years of abundance in America began in 1950 with the defence expenditure triggered off by the Korean War , and the boom continued with only a hiccup or two of recession in 1954 and 1958 . |
| 3 | In other words , these are ritualised displays triggered off by the stimulus of ‘ predator-near-nest ’ . |
| 4 | Some eruptions have become major historical events , since many of the world 's greatest natural disasters have been associated with volcanoes , either directly through the effects of explosions and suffocation by volcanic gases , or indirectly through the much further-reaching effects of tidal waves triggered off by an eruption , such as those resulting from the great eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 . |
| 5 | But as the complex and delicate process unravelled , with hormones triggered off like the unlocking of a set of combination locks in a vast bank vault , it emerged how unlike a precious gem the ovum is . |
| 6 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 7 | Pillars ran around the circular enclosure , and the myriad corridors all seemed to disappear off to an elaborate pattern . |
| 8 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 9 | PETER Kennedy 's tongue-in-cheek shot at his latest creation , ‘ The Widow or Bust ’ , has come off with a bang at the Arts Theatre this week . |
| 10 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 11 | So our hero stumped off down the yard and came across 4913 . |
| 12 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 13 | Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers . |
| 14 | The small swimming pool is perfect for cooling off under the force of the midday sun , and the snack bar serves a great range of food into the early hours of the morning . |
| 15 | Cooling off in a Scottish loch : riders from the Castle Riding Centre , Argyllshire . |
| 16 | Willows and other small trees grew thickly on the banks of Lough Corrib , fenced off from the road . |
| 17 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 18 | And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil . |
| 19 | ‘ I said , ‘ Get lost ’ , and pushed past him and staggered off down the corridor . |
| 20 | She struggled to her feet , her only thought to avoid discovery , and staggered off into the darkness . |
| 21 | The machine gun came free , and the children staggered off under the weight , certain of a huge price on the black market . |
| 22 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 23 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 24 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 25 | WHAT is the protocol at a smart lunch when one 's neighbour drops off during the speeches ? |
| 26 | It rolls up , it , it 's retractable inside the body or it drops off after an orgasm |
| 27 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 28 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |
| 29 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 30 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |