Example sentences of "[that] [am/are] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the more poor little Britain takes a battering , the more bombs that are called down on the wreck of London , the sooner it will be . |
| 2 | Even chemicals that are broken down by different enzymes may ‘ compete ’ : some enzymes need substances known cofactors to help them do their work , so the two chemicals are ‘ competing ’ for cofactors , rather than for the enzymes themselves . |
| 3 | The trained person applies them in ways that are laid down during training . |
| 4 | Local authority and housing association tenants have certain rights that are laid down by government : |
| 5 | But it is changed too in that it is not so much the details of infant care that are laid down as the principles which should be followed in deciding the details . |
| 6 | The farmers live cheek by jowl with the pits that are shutting down . |
| 7 | You can pick up some waif on the street and with a good director she can be a good actor , because it 's really about isolated moments on film that are edited down . |
| 8 | This is a time of austerity , of playing with ration books , of knowing we are " overcrowded " , of squabbles between the women over doing the stairs and cleaning the toilet that are handed down to us children in the form of sectarian rivalries . |