1. While attached to Camp Pendleton, however, the Gulf War veteran got swept up in an off-base drug scene.

2. I often like to guess what concepts are before reading descriptions because I enjoy the surprise in being totally off-base.

3. Students will often ask questions they should know the answer to, or attempt to build on a point with an off-base comment.

4. One heat wave, one storm, one event says nothing about global warming or its effects. That is why those who jumped on Hurricane Katrina as proof of global warming were really off-base.

5. AA compressors and other components belong to an extremely broad range of on- and off-base equipment within the scope of our repair and refurbishment capabilities.

6. Some of our early intuition will prove right, some will need fine tuning, and some ideas will prove off-base.

7. So, from an academic perspective we appear to be way off-base when we co-opt these disciplines for a practical moral goal not shared by their "mother" departments.

8. They shouldn't argue with you, unless your assessment of the wine's quality is clearly off-base.