Example sentences of "write [pers pn] off as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kersey would have written him off as harmless had it not been for his extreme wariness . |
| 2 | My organization will write me off as unreliable . ’ |
| 3 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 4 | Middle-brow types might write it off as just a splatterfest — this year 's big event is the world premiere of Sam Raimi 's Army Of Darkness : Evil Dead 3 . |
| 5 | So changeable in his opinions was Keynes that many of his contemporaries were baffled , or wrote him off as mentally erratic . |