Example sentences of "write off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 've started writing off , we 've drafted a letter to write off to different colleges and sort of I 'll write off before I do my exams . |
| 2 | Thoughtful people who are not able to buy the simplistic analysis are written off with contemptuous slogans like ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you are part of the problem ’ . |
| 3 | Collected elsewhere , these might have been written off as terrestrial contamination . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 8 | This is necessary because many overhead costs are not included in work in progress but are written off against current profits each year ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 9 | They can not be written off like other marginalised groups . |
| 10 | A year ago desktop publishing was being written off by professional publishers as lacking quality , control and support . |
| 11 | The total of bad debts written off by state-owned regional banks had reached almost A$3,000 million since the deregulation in 1984 of banking activities [ see p.33533 ] . |
| 12 | Nothing could be more provocative to Tolkien than a word without a referent ( emnet , wodwos , Gandálfr , ent ) , except perhaps an ancient poem written off by modern scholars as hopelessly irrational . |
| 13 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 14 | On the other hand the United States should not write off in advance certain parts of Asia to communism without examining what might or might not be done . |