Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] off " in BNC.

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1 In the past it might 've been written off as artwank .
2 Their challenge meeting away to Wolverhampton this evening has been rained off .
3 Mr Pozsgay has been written off many times .
4 Some £450 million has been written off .
5 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 .
6 The supplementary note disclosed that over the past six years £298m goodwill arising on acquisitions has been written off to reserve .
7 Naas Botha has been written off after his performances .
8 Your worships , Mr works for Wallbank aerials in Worley and he works for them as an engineer his vehicle was erm something that he did use for work , but unfortunately as a result of the accident his has been written off and he has n't yet been able to er , replace it and so he 's having to be erm er , chauffeured by the company to do his er his work .
9 His vehicle was erm something that he did use for work but unfortunately as a result of the accident his has been written off and he has n't yet been able to er replace it and so he 's having to be erm er chauffeured by the company to do his er his work .
10 State the cumulative amount of goodwill resulting from acquisitions in that and earlier financial years which has been written off .
11 The cumulative amount of goodwill resulting from acquisitions during the current and previous years which has been written off , net of goodwill attributable to disposals before 31st March 1991 , totals £3,850,000 .
12 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 ’ .
13 The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle .
14 ( iv ) has been struck off or suspended from practice as a lawyer or a jurisdiction other than England and Wales ; or
15 By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available .
16 ‘ Our disintegrator cannon has been blasted off ! ’ he cried incredulously .
17 Council funding of an HCRC cultural centre and other projects has been cut off , and vacant staff posts frozen .
18 But the gas has been cut off , which is an appalling piece of vindictiveness on the part of some public servant who ought to know that writers of talent have better things to do with their time than remember dates on bits of paper delivered in brown envelopes like a trade circular .
19 Consider : the electricity has been cut off , the gas supply has stopped , the telephone has no dialling tone .
20 Help may be available for things such as bedding , heaters , the installation or re-siting of a meter or for reconnection charges if your fuel supply has been cut off .
21 Gorazde , home to up to 70,000 residents and refugees , has been cut off for months and under fierce attack for 17 days .
22 It is little short of tragic that she has been cut off , while still at the peak of her singing power .
23 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 .
24 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 ) .
25 The spot has been cordoned off with orange tape .
26 Alan McLeary 's proposed £400,000 transfer to Wimbledon following a six-match loan period has been called off because Dons manager Joe Kinnear has been told he must sell first .
27 It also means that the Scottish international 's disciplinary hearing due to take place at the Football Association this afternoon has been called off .
28 We know now from the Portuguese Government that that delegation has been called off because of the recent tragic events in East Timor .
29 A search for what was thought to be a body has been called off after police found an aircraft cargo net .
30 A mock aeroplane crash , which was due to take place today , has been called off .
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