Example sentences of "[v-ing] off the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this difficulty was not necessarily insurmountable and certainly does not justify writing off the Duke as a political lightweight . |
| 2 | Digital Communications Associates Inc has reported a third quarter net loss of $66.6m after a pre-tax charge of $59.9m from writing off the goodwill in its Pacific Data Products unit and $3.2m from the costs of reorganising that company , and $3.2m from settlement of a class action lawsuit , and a tax credit of $583,000 , against a profit last time of $6.0m on turnover that rose 8.9% at $55.7m ; net loss for the nine months was $58.0m against profit last time of $13.3m on turnover up 9.0% at $104.4m . |
| 3 | Net profit after writing off the goodwill associated with acquisitions dropped further , by 16.9% to $15.1m . |
| 4 | Two Phillips & Drew analysts , for example , have just shown how Coloroll ‘ created ’ its 1988–89 profits by writing off the goodwill on the Crowther carpet acquisition — the very buy that broke its back . |
| 5 | If you work for a company which insists that you drive a particular brand of car , resign , first writing off the car in an accident in which two teenage hookers and a hallucinating macaw reach a rather untimely end . |
| 6 | We have become accustomed to writing off the engineering industry as one of the casualties in the reshaping of British industry during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 7 | Harvey was certainly reliable but I think he was also capable of pulling off the classic save ( as in the Leeds-Arsenal Cup final ) . |
| 8 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |
| 9 | And after pulling off the midfielder on the hour , Branfoot admitted : ‘ I could see Terry being sent off and I did n't want him missing matches . |
| 10 | Alas , they had no high chairs for nine month old Daniel , and it was with a sinking heart that I picked up the menu , while trying to hold the baby and prevent toddler Michael from pulling off the tablecloth . |
| 11 | He begins without ceremony by pulling off the blouse and flinging it in the gully . |
| 12 | She went to the full-length mirror beside her dressing-table , pulling off the headband she had worn in the bath and releasing the glossy brown hair that tumbled almost to her shoulders . |
| 13 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 14 | And never borrow money from a moneylender ( or specialist finance or credit company , as they are usually called ) who charges interest way above the odds , otherwise you will be paying off the debt over two years rather than fourteen months . |
| 15 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 16 | People are still paying off the debt they ran up when they borrowed on the back of roaring house prices in the eighties . |
| 17 | I am still paying off the sofa which came from a catalogue . |
| 18 | After paying off the driver Nathan steered her into a busy , softly lit restaurant , and she had to admit he had guessed correctly that a meal did indeed top her list of priorities . |
| 19 | Paying off the driver , she rang the bell and stood with her small amount of luggage at her feet , quite unaware of how totally lost and alone she seemed . |
| 20 | She looked the place over while Josie was paying off the cab . |
| 21 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 22 | From the customer 's point of view , buying now on credit does save any increase in price that would take place between now and ( say ) whenever he finishes paying off the loan . |
| 23 | Remember to take this into account if you are considering paying off the loan early . |
| 24 | Finally , at the end of term , the profits are realised , paying off the loan . |
| 25 | PAYING off the mortgage ahead of time is certainly the safest investment and could also be best for taxpayers who fear reduced returns on deposits if Labour wins . |
| 26 | Paying off the mortgage created difficulties when the income from the farm declined during the bad times , which was more often than not , when prices fell for our sheep , cattle and produce . |
| 27 | To use a popular metaphor from the time , getting out of Algeria was like paying off the mortgage on the nation 's future . |
| 28 | between you , the main one erm paying off the mortgage ? |
| 29 | So great was Paul 's obsession that the only way Mrs Bedworth could force him to take a break was by switching off the electricity supply at the mains , she told Southwark Crown Court . |
| 30 | The fact that the aid is an extraordinary measure and that the patient has indicated that it is a burden absolves the doctor of his duty to continue treatment , and he may therefore discontinue it by switching off the machine . |