Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 2 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 3 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 4 | Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly ! |
| 5 | One day we see not one , nor even one pair , but two pairs of sea eagles lift off from the cliffs under which we are paddling . |
| 6 | But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources . |
| 7 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 8 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 9 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 10 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 11 | When the noise died down a signal gun was fired and five boats pushed off from the shore and began the race . |
| 12 | I just do not know what aircraft this was , I had never seen such a type before , but he made a very cautious circuit and then to my amazement an approach to land despite the red Very lights pooped off from the control tower . |
| 13 | The dots represent the angles at which pigeons flew off from the release site : the direction home is straight up ; straight down represents 180° away from home . |
| 14 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 15 | A nearly full complement of 673 passengers cast off from the city dock this day , dark with continuous rain . |
| 16 | The Davidians split off from the Sabbath Day Adventist church in the nineteen thirties . |
| 17 | Two beetles start off from the same point in opposite directions . |
| 18 | There were several hot-water pipes leading off from the stove , heated rails where wet clothes were hung to dry and plates of food were left to keep warm after serving . |
| 19 | Flashbulbs went off from the audience . |
| 20 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 21 | The bay was defined by fine trees at the top of cliffs at one side , and at the westward extremity towards the open sea a strange cluster of white rocks split off from the chalk cliff . |