Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Naas Botha has been written off after his performances . |
| 5 | Gorazde , home to up to 70,000 residents and refugees , has been cut off for months and under fierce attack for 17 days . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The spot has been cordoned off with orange tape . |
| 9 | It was the third time Hillman has been sent off in his career and having been suspended for 20 weeks for his last offence , can expect a lengthy suspension for his latest misdemeanour . |
| 10 | The Lockwood Parish Map created by a band of workers over several years in East Cleveland has been packed off to Milton Keynes where it will be on display when the Queen commemorates the 25th anniversary of the new town on March 13 . |
| 11 | The styling has been rounded off at each end and VW house-style rectangular headlights have been fitted . |
| 12 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For the time being , the American peace plan has been killed off by the Labour Party 's failure to form a government . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The new business has been split off from IBM Personal Systems Business Europe , and is claimed to be one of the world 's largest software businesses ; operations are currently being formed in individual European countries . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There is no cover under this section where the freezer plug has been accidentally removed or where the appliance has been switched off in error . |
| 19 | The camps were spotted by pilots flying supplies to Nagorny Karabakh , which has been sealed off from the rest of Azerbaijan for several months . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 22 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 23 | Northamptonshire 's match against Hampshire in Southampton has been put off until tomorrow because of bad weather |
| 24 | But that debate and subsequent decision has been put off until October , when supporters of ban expect to win . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Cantona should have been sent off for poking Fairclough , BBC did n't show that . |