Example sentences of "off as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the cathedral had been roped off as a theatre , a very Sussex touch . |
| 2 | It might be interesting ; he was obviously intelligent and well-educated , and the fact that both Dora and Iris had written him off as a fortune-hunter caused her no particular misgivings . |
| 3 | It started off as a laugh , but has become a job to me . |
| 4 | With sterling out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , Britons tend to write this off as a pipe-dream . |
| 5 | Although it started off as a school project , the spider catcher has attracted alot of outside interest . |
| 6 | Seedlings of Platypodium elegans ( Leguminosae ) also in central America die of damping off as a function of distance from the mother in their first year , when the mortality rate can be up to 81% . |
| 7 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
| 8 | Started off as a flower . |
| 9 | It started off as a flower . |
| 10 | On the last day of the Centenary Test of 1980 , Arlott signed off as a commentator in a much more formal setting . |
| 11 | Dressed , Dawn could be passed off as a member of the audience . |
| 12 | He did not start off as a rebel seeking out Peripatetics to confound . |
| 13 | I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’ |
| 14 | A banker 's acceptance starts off as a bill of exchange , which is itself a form of IOU . |
| 15 | She broke off as a man 's voice called from the staircase : ‘ What 's all this dam ’ talking ? |
| 16 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Miki was worried that this important development might be passed off as a fad , a ‘ scene ’ people will get tired of : ‘ To some people it 's already a gimmick , but it 's very important , a lot of people have a lot to say . |
| 19 | ‘ With your arms around my neck I ca n't think of anything but — ’ He broke off as a door opened along the corridor , his head turning automatically to look away , and in that moment she escaped , going into her room and slamming the door behind her . |
| 20 | I started off as a drummer . |
| 21 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’ |
| 23 | Indeed , it is more than two years since she had her last lesson — a half-hour check-up from the man who started her off as a 12-year-old . |
| 24 | What starts off as a bit of a laugh could quickly turn into an embarrassing muddle . |
| 25 | It was the material that first started Crystal Clear off as a company . |
| 26 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |
| 27 | A MAN passed himself off as a solicitor to get into a prison and beat up a prisoner accused of molesting his daughter , it was revealed today . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was thus easy , and probably correct , to write the alleged anxiety problem off as a failure of the investigator 's sense of proportion . |