Example sentences of "[be] written off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 2 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 3 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 4 | However , the Jordanian government considered that a further US$40,000,000 owed to Saudi Arabia since the mid-1980s had previously been written off by the Saudi ruler King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz . |
| 5 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 9 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |