Example sentences of "it off as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone laughed it off as a typical piece of board-room exaggeration . |
| 2 | She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away . |
| 3 | A Rhodian , Menodotus , collaborated with another Rhodian to forge a bronze statue of Apollo and pass it off as a work of the early fifth century BC . |
| 4 | He took a wagonload of the spoiled crop to San Francisco and passed it off as a Peruvian delicacy . |
| 5 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 6 | You may remember that AT&T 's original intention in setting up USL was to one day spin it off as a separate company . |
| 7 | There is after all nothing inherently wrong with quoting fiction — with saying , for example , that Baker Street once housed a detective called Sherlock Holmes — so long as you do n't mislead anyone by palming it off as a fact . |
| 8 | And if you did palm it off as a fact , it would be no excuse that you had done it non-linguistically : for example , by including clips from Sherlock Holmes movies in old newsreels as if they were genuine news items . |
| 9 | Be that as it may , I shall be philosophic if you prove unworthy of this not inconsiderable investment — I can always write it off as a little deficit financing — but if you wish to continue with our relationship you must be prepared to place some real trust in me . |
| 10 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 11 | There has been a balance Chair , and , and hence the fact that we 've knocked it off as an efficiency saving rather than as a reduction in service . |