Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Bank of England does not forbid them to do so , such stakes would have to be wholly written off against capital . |
| 2 | If Balbinder was bussed to Cedars every day she would be effectively cut off from any real involvement in her children 's schooling , and from an important part of her own role within the community as the mother of a young child at the local school . |
| 3 | The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Similarly the " stopping rate " is the maximum stepping rate which can be suddenly switched off without the motor overshooting the target position . |
| 6 | Any surplus glue can be easily wiped off with a rag and then with solvent . |
| 7 | Speaking in Sao Tomé on Nov. 22 , 1989 , Prime Minister Celestino Rocha da Costa announced that five of the 15 state-owned cocoa plantations ( which covered 80 per cent of land for cultivation and were the major source of export earnings ) would be shortly sold off as part of a privatization programme . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A decision by a customer to change a source of supply usually involves substantial fixed costs in setting up new systems of distribution and servicing which can not be immediately written off against lower supply prices . |
| 10 | For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could , at a future date , be simply floated off as private bodies . |
| 11 | Just because you 're inhumanly happy living with Tom does n't mean the rest of the world has to be cosily paired off into couples . ’ |
| 12 | The bed/storage area could be neatly screened off with matchstick blinds . |
| 13 | Wooden blades can be used in weighted or unweighted form and can be neatly finished off by covering with heatshrink sleeving ( below ) . |
| 14 | Apparently the movie has to be officially called off in some way and that takes time . |
| 15 | Car No. 396 was destroyed by a bomb outside Croydon bus garage on 10 May 1941 and its remains dumped in Purley depot , to be officially written off on 30 November 1945 . |
| 16 | Drawing attention to paid visits back to the home country may help to reassure the family that they will not be completely cut off from relatives and friends . |
| 17 | Thus , in the example shown in Figure 11 , all detectors for words beginning with an R will receive excitatory inputs from the letter detector level , while detectors for all other words will be completely switched off by inhibition . |