Example sentences of "[verb] be closed down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fall in crude prices since 1980 coupled with the diminution of oil availability fears has meant a progressive down-grading of forecasts for the future contribution to world energy supply of synthetic fuels as project after project , megaproject after megaproject , has been closed down . |
| 2 | Hundreds of teachers and academics have been murdered , the UES has been closed down on a number of occasions by the army and the UCA subjected to bomb attacks . |
| 3 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 4 | Since their manufacturing plant has been closed down and the building converted into the Templeton Business Centre . |
| 5 | The centre has been closed down while repairs are made . |
| 6 | The oldest nuclear power plant in the United States , located near Rowe , Massachusetts , has been closed down by its operators after experts from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) recommended that it be taken out of service immediately because of doubts about its safety . |
| 7 | The second reactor at the Ignalina nuclear power station has been closed down after a leak of radioactive steam . |
| 8 | However , this line of challenge has been closed down by Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 , which allows challenges only if the expert has asked himself the wrong question , including a question of law . |
| 9 | The report also notes that owing to serious technical difficulties a new assembly building has only just been commissioned , which means that nuclear-warhead production has had to continue in old buildings which should have been closed down . |
| 10 | That was until about two years ago when unfortunately the home where she worked was closed down and she was made redundant . |
| 11 | In the event , he was accepted at Birmingham University , but just before he arrived he was informed that the geography department had been closed down because of austerity measures brought in during World War N. He therefore decided to read geology instead , but shortly afterwards he received notification that this department was also to be closed . |
| 12 | Six small unions in Gaza had been closed down by Israel in 1967 , and only allowed to re-open in 1979 , on condition they neither held fresh elections nor recruited new members . |
| 13 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 14 | Some of the branch lines had been closed down in the Beeching fifties . |
| 15 | A significant number of companies had been forced into liquidation , and potentially viable businesses capable of being rescued had been closed down , for want of such a floating charge . |
| 16 | He invited television cameras into the headquarters of the StB on Feb. 5 to prove to the public that the organization had been closed down . |
| 17 | The newspaper La Prensa , which had been closed down in February 1988 [ see p. 35818 ] , reopened on Jan. 7 , 1990 , its editor , Roberto Eisenmann , having returned from exile on Jan. 5 . |
| 18 | Educational institutions had been closed down in 1988 at the height of the abortive student-led anti-government uprising [ see pp. 36221-24 ] . |
| 19 | On Oct. 3 a statement issued in Abu Dhabi , one of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , by the majority shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank . |
| 20 | The Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) announced on June 17 , however , that it would not participate , claiming that its offices had been closed down and its officials arbitrarily arrested by forces of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) . |
| 21 | The plant had been closed down for repairs following an explosion at the St Petersburg nuclear power station , where similar equipment was in use [ see p. 38843 ] . |
| 22 | The decision by the Swedish authorities to restart operations at the plant , which had been closed down in September because of a flaw in the emergency cooling system [ see ED 63 ] , has been strongly criticized in Denmark . |
| 23 | There is little trace left of York 's truly ancient coaching , posting and market inns , while nearly half the pubs which were standing in the 1950s , including some historic gems , have been closed down , converted , or redeveloped into oblivion . |
| 24 | Route finding is easy , though four tunnels which originally formed part of the railway line have been closed down for safety reasons . |
| 25 | Art schools have been closed down and those that survive are permitted only to the extent to which they have converted to a market economy . |
| 26 | ‘ A large number of properties have been closed down as landlords pull out because they can not afford to upgrade them , ’ she said . |
| 27 | ‘ There was a time when all of the major companies had creches , but these have been closed down , ’ said Mr Farries . |