Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 2 | Too often his reputation as an architect has been written off on the basis of very late works which were more the work of his nephew , MacVicar Anderson , and his chief clerk , Colling , under his direction . |
| 3 | BOSNIAN Serbs yesterday turned back a convoy carrying food and medicine to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia which has been cut off from the outside world for ten months . |
| 4 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 5 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 6 | His Teflon-coating has been peeling off in the heat of the election campaign . |
| 7 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 8 | For the time being , the American peace plan has been killed off by the Labour Party 's failure to form a government . |
| 9 | A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment . |
| 10 | In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files . |
| 11 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |
| 12 | The operational station — the engineering workshop and so " on which was previously accommodated within the bus station has been shunted off to a glorified shed on what can best be described as a piece of waste ground " . |
| 13 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 14 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 15 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 16 | Only problems were that one of them had had been snapped off at the legs and been reglued direct to the base , presumably in an effort to replicate Bremner 's short stature , and also in an effort to simulate Albert Johanneson ( or was it Gerry ? ? ) brown paint had been splurged all over one player , rendering his kit a mucky pink . |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 18 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 19 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
| 20 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 21 | Some critics link this with the sharp drop in foreign investment last year , though foreigners may also have been put off by the army 's killing of civilian demonstrators in Bangkok last May . |
| 22 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 23 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 24 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |
| 25 | Whether this burning interest came from a transmigration from a previous existence I do not know , but it may have been sparked off by a small and relatively insignificant incident which occurred in the spring of 1929 . |
| 26 | Unofficial reports said that the incident might have been sparked off by a dispute over permission to build a mosque . |
| 27 | The murder could have been sparked off by a minor row leading to a slap or punch . |
| 28 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
| 29 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 30 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |