Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 2 | ‘ We are very worried someone is going to fall down the cliff or slip off the ship and break something . |
| 3 | Dip this end into hormone rooting powder while it is still moist from the cut so that some powder adheres , shake or tap off the surplus and lay it aside for a few minutes while the others are being prepared . |
| 4 | Or kick off the goal-line . |
| 5 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 6 | In simple language , it is normally sufficient for the occupier to make reasonable endeavours to keep out or chase off the potential or actual intruder who is likely to be or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 7 | Secondly , the event risk is the likelihood of such a person forgetting to light the gas , switch off the electric cooker , lock the doors , or turn off the bath tap . |
| 8 | Our pattern will return of course , as we did not erase it or switch off the controller . |
| 9 | The pictures that curators tried for decades to coax or pry off the Barnes 's walls will also travel to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and then to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo . |
| 10 | Yes it 's a page of Government paper in Summerchild 's judicious hand , which does not make holes in the paper , or need x-ing out , or fall off the bottom of the page : |
| 11 | They live hand to mouth and get no pension or help off the state . |
| 12 | As well as the success in managing to circumvent , persuade or buy off the opposition to nuclear power plants , France has also established a formula for building PWRs quicker than anyone else . |
| 13 | This is partly philanthropic and partly economic — it may cost more to process the bill and collect the money than to write off the charge ! |
| 14 | Their publications would do credit to any university : Libertarian Conflicts in Social Choice , by UBS Phillips & Drew 's John Wriglesworth , The Role of Crack Resistance Parameters in Polymer Wear , by Williams de Broe 's Mustapha Omar and Stellar Winds ( which might conceivably be a volume of poetry ) by Robert Fleming 's Martin Murch are just a few of the titles that leap off the page . |
| 15 | His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets . |
| 16 | This was certainly more dramatic than the more publicized event that finished off the dinosaurs . |
| 17 | It was the part of him that switched off the alarm in the morning and made him sleep in . |
| 18 | Beams that bounce off the target are received by the interceptor , which passes the information back to the ground . |
| 19 | Oysters , gentlemen — I 'll provide the oysters , and it 'll be the oysters that pay off the overdraft . " |
| 20 | Why , in other words , should perception be of the perceived object rather than any other object in the causal chain further back in the causal chain ; why every perception should not be of the Big Bang that started off the Universe . |
| 21 | Pluto ( since discovered to be a ‘ double planet ’ ) is far too small to create the perturbations in Neptune 's orbit that started off the search in the first place . |
| 22 | Statistically , most Koi that shuffle off the mortal scale do so within two or three years of existence . |
| 23 | The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility . |
| 24 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |
| 25 | The wretched towns of lower Aragon , detested by liberal soldiers , became strongholds of Carlism and it was the desolation of decaying artisan towns that set off the polemics on the effectiveness of ecclesiastical charity . |
| 26 | He was dressed in a dark suit , expensively tailored , and a plain white shirt and bright silk tie that set off the crisp , glossy blackness of his hair . |
| 27 | It was , for example , a National Front meeting in Southall Town Hall on St George 's Day 1979 that sparked off the clashes between police and members of the local community during which Mr Blair Peach was fatally injured ( NCCL , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | The complex relationship between mothers and daughters may arouse feelings of dependency and failure which further confuse the issue that sparked off the tears . |
| 29 | As a result , Brunel could argue that killing off the quickie at the end of the decade was a mistake since it was possible to make ‘ really fine , unspectacular pictures ’ , and ‘ we were evolving a technique that showed what could be done when facing fearful odds . ’ |
| 30 | It was thought likely that some substantial Teesdale farmer might buy all three , ranch the land and sell off the house as a weekend cottage — a regrettably common practice which has been partially responsible for the steady depopulation of the Dales , particularly the more isolated places . |