Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be misleading therefore , effectively to write off the outer circle of kin as significant sources of support in British society . |
| 2 | TWO YOUTHS miraculously escaped injury last night when the car they were travelling in crashed off a busy road and into a subway . |
| 3 | Gordon Ellis of the Vectis Flyers , Isle of Wight , uses marker pens to apply his Dragon decor , though not always enough to ward off the evil intent of competitors ! |
| 4 | Better carry off an embarrassing situation with as much panache as she could muster . |
| 5 | There may have been a breakdown in communication ; the taxi for day care did not call , the officer in charge was abrupt , the meal unsuitable ; these are matters not hard to put right , but unless sorted out quickly , enough to put off an elderly person perhaps reluctant to face a change of routine or the challenge of meeting new people . |
| 6 | Doctors who are known to carry out abortions merely pay off the necessary authorities and are rarely persecuted . |
| 7 | As it happened , it was the enemy who opened fire first , the leading ship suddenly letting off a ragged salvo from its starboard guns , in flame and smoke , as demonstration and warning presumably . |
| 8 | He finished in great style but was just nosed out in a three-way photo , and is improving sufficiently to shrug off an extra four pounds from the handicapper . |
| 9 | Better to eat off an orange box and get pleasure from a plant than to spend the money on a cheap and nasty table which is going to be an unsatisfactory stopgap Save money and effort right at the start by sorting out priorities — which should include enjoying the room you live in — and try not to stray too far from your original objectives . |
| 10 | To take a swab , net the affected fish into a bowl , take a plastic coverglass and gently scrape off a small amount of mucus . |
| 11 | A cropped and fitted jacket nips in to show off a neat waist and looks trim with a long line skirt . |
| 12 | By this time our conscious , if unspoken , strategy was to provoke the police into over-reaction and thus spark off a mass reaction against the authorities . |
| 13 | This wacky space-chick might not be everybody 's dream girl-who-fell-to-earth but at least it should allow Basinger to finally shake off the bruised sex-kitten image she 's been saddled with ever since Mickey Rourke emptied his weekly grocery shopping all over her body in the designer sex-romp 9/2 Weeks . |
| 14 | It is going to be quite a fine balance between the need to cut spending , cutting taxation and not killing off the tender recovery , ’ he said . |
| 15 | We can not kill off an old idea in order to develop a better one . |
| 16 | If it does not kill off the golden goose , it will certainly let it starve to death through neglect . |
| 17 | Ironically , the actions of a few Western governments , led by the United states and including Britain , could finally kill off the nodule-mining industry before it even begins to operate , and all in the name of protecting the industry . |
| 18 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 19 | You can effectively fend off the unsightly fatty areas known as cellulite , or ‘ orange-peel ’ skin by stimulating a healthy blood flow , taking regular exercise , and eating a sensible diet . |
| 20 | As hire purchase was judged to be a system of hiring with an option to buy ( by eventually paying off the full credit price ) , HP escaped the controls of the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 21 | In Somerset , the old drove-ways still branch off the main routes into the moors , like spines on a stickleback . |
| 22 | Ironically , that made England more determined than ever to pull off the stirring victory at Headingley which levelled the series . |
| 23 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 24 | Close by a couple were kissing , holding each other close to ward off the cold wind that had sprung up . |
| 25 | After a time the circuit should settle down to a state in which the usual combinations of inputs to the cell are relatively ineffective , while any unusual combination can still set off a strong response . |
| 26 | THE Government was forced to make an embarrassing about-turn over the Maastricht bill yesterday to head off a damaging defeat at the hands of an alliance of Tory Euro-rebels and opposition parties . |
| 27 | In the programme , called Raiders of the Rainforest , Friends of the Earth alleges that MPL a subsidiary of Babcock Electrical Projects Ltd of Gloucester which is in turn controlled by FKI plc illegally siphoned off a significant proportion of this loan . |
| 28 | Fragments of rock , and of Mait , flung backwards by the blast , also set off the other bomb and in moments , several tens of yards of ceiling had collapsed in . |
| 29 | Enhancing its startling effect this ‘ forked tongue ’ also gives off an unpleasant , pungent odour . |
| 30 | Here , in the Kalahari , a group of meerkats is angrily seeing off a deadly yellow cobra . |