Example sentences of "off as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's too easy to shrug them off as drippy MOR bores because popularity , ultimately , has its price . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not certain , but there 's a suggestion that they have stolen British army trucks and uniforms and , with forged documents , pass themselves off as official convoys . |
| 3 | Some of our more charming wayside stations have been sold off as private houses . |
| 4 | For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could , at a future date , be simply floated off as private bodies . |
| 5 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 6 | Collected elsewhere , these might have been written off as terrestrial contamination . |
| 7 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 8 | Most reports of his single handed massacre of the Aussies sheepishly admitted he had been ‘ written off as major force ’ consigned to a bit part on cricket 's international stage . |
| 9 | The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change . |
| 10 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 11 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 12 | CLIVE ALLEN scored twice , but Trevor Morley was sent off as European football last night returned to Upton Park for the first time in 11 years . |
| 13 | The pioneers of the NHS accepted that it would initially be necessary to increase the resources devoted to the service , but that this would level off as medical needs were satisfied . |
| 14 | In the film Hospital George C. Scott plays the administrator attempting to impose some order on the chaos of misadventure , accidents , and disasters passing themselves off as medical care . |
| 15 | Will the artificial and shallow-minded of the world ever recognise the beauty of natural values and not shrug it off as sky-high idealism ? |
| 16 | Line managers have discretion to give people time off as special leave . |
| 17 | They are parasitic on fish , feeding on the blood for three months before dropping off as miniature mussels . |
| 18 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 19 | The men began to wonder if the people whom they had laughed off as superstitious niggers were n't right after all . |
| 20 | Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations . |
| 21 | A series of studies , due to be completed in June , will decide which operations will be spun off as Independent Business Centres — to be up and running by January 1 1994 . |
| 22 | A series of studies , due to be completed in June will decide which operations will be spun off as Independent Business Centres — to be up and running by January 1 1994 . |