Example sentences of "[pron] off as being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , it is an offence for a private company to pass itself off as being a public company and vice versa . |
| 2 | Even before he started at Rangers , Brian Clough had written him off as being ‘ too nice ’ for the job . |
| 3 | He irritated the hell out of her , and it would n't be so bad if she could write him off as being thoroughly detestable . |
| 4 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
| 5 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |