Example sentences of "be [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 2 | The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night . |
| 3 | That proposal has a number of different themes to it ; briefly , Channel Four would be floated off from the IBA and would then be franchised as any other ITV company . |
| 4 | The request serial number should also be checked off against the records in the control book , and logged as completed . |
| 5 | As a conscious exercise in boosting public morale at a difficult time there was a real danger of over-indulgence in wishful thinking ; it would be a cruel delusion to anticipate too many rabbits out of the hat , only to be fobbed off by the patter of the conjurer . |
| 6 | He was n't going to be fobbed off by the issue of her drink either , she found . |
| 7 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 8 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 9 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 10 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 11 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 12 | That means a potential 200,000 customers will be jetting off to the States . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 14 | That area should now be hived off along the line delineated in Map B. |
| 15 | The idea that control of monetary policy can be hived off from the rest of economic policy is false . |
| 16 | Containers and freight , craned down on to the raft from the deck of the LSL , would be lifted off by the giant Fiat Allis fork-lift trucks . |
| 17 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 18 | Costs which do not qualify as issue costs should be written off to the profit and loss account as incurred . |
| 19 | The SORP requires that advances should be written off to the extent that it appears there is no realistic prospect of recovery . |
| 20 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 21 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 22 | The generation of surplus ACT has a detrimental effect on the company 's reported earnings , since it must usually be written off in the accounts . |
| 23 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 24 | The expenditure concerned therefore will be written off in the year in which it is incurred . |
| 25 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 26 | A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred . |
| 27 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 28 | Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time . |
| 29 | The tin oxide , being relatively heavy , travels only a short distance when carried by a stream of water and can be channelled off from the waste . |
| 30 | The instructions warn that if the stove burns with a high yellow flame it should be turned off at the fuel valve and allowed to cool . |