Example sentences of "write [pers pn] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To air clothes when there is no airing cupboard is not only a chore , but an expensive one , while to fail to air all the unworn clothes is frequently to write them off to mildew . |
| 2 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 3 | Agrees to write it off for me . |
| 4 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you might have written me off as a crackpot after my performance this morning . ’ |
| 6 | She would have written me off as a time-wasting nut . |
| 7 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 8 | He had written her off as a useless , lying bimbo . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | STEVE Cram launches his new 5,000 metres career on the roads of Aberdeen in the mood to confound the critics who have written him off as a has-been . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change . |
| 13 | Scientists who have worked on the high plateau forgivably take a cavalier view of coastal and maritime Antarctica , writing it off as ‘ that banana belt up north ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | BERNIE Slaven blasted a message to Middlesbrough and the Premier League following his two-goal demolition of Manchester City : Write me off at your peril ! |
| 16 | BRIAN Gayle returns to action against his old club Wimbledon tonight warning : ‘ Write them off at your peril . ’ |
| 17 | Meanwhile former Wimbledon star Brian Gayle returns to action against his old club tonight warning : ‘ Write them off at your peril . ’ |
| 18 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 19 | In the same fashion , if the witch-doctor offers advice which turns out to be wrong , you write him off as a quack and change your doctor . |
| 20 | Ronald Reagan has made a career out of being underestimated and the same mistake was made in 1980 when his critics wrote him off as an amiable , ex-movie actor ill-qualified for the presidency . |
| 21 | His criticism of the prodigality of government in October 1675 was very ill-received at court , and when a pension to his son failed to secure his support , the king wrote him off among those people ‘ who will never be obliged ’ . |