Example sentences of "[been] [verb] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
| 2 | By October , when the administration 's Operations Sub-Group on Terrorism met in the White House Situation Room , the target list had been whittled down to one , Fawaz Younis , whom the CIA described as ‘ a key player in the back-street world of terrorism … who reported directly to the leadership of the Shiite Amal militia ’ . |
| 3 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 4 | Now various versions of Unix have been boiled down to two : one from the Open Systems Foundation , a consortium that includes IBM , Hewlett Packard and DEC , and one from Unix International , a consortium involving AT&T and Sun Microsystems . |
| 5 | She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain . |
| 6 | The six themes are at unequal stages of development in that some have already been broken down into specific research projects whereas others are at a more exploratory stage . |
| 7 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |
| 8 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 9 | Manufacturing industry is now expected to grow by 1.6 per cent this year , against only 0.5 per cent last November , but the forecast for 1994 has been revised down to 2.8 per cent from 3.1 per cent . |
| 10 | Channel 2 is essentially the same , but there 's no ‘ mid ’ control , no EQ preset button and the tone controls have been honed down to just bass and treble . |
| 11 | She explored the place where his manhood lay and he , in turn , used experienced fingers to set alight that part of her where carnal longings had been damped down until that moment . |
| 12 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 13 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 14 | Coun Richmond asked councillors to vote for more talks with the disabled who he felt had been let down by late changes to the scheme . |
| 15 | Yeah so , there 's a bit more , more could have been written down on that . |
| 16 | When he had broached the subject — tentatively — he had been turned down with surprising sharpness . |
| 17 | ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’ |
| 18 | After all , at this end of the market where incomes are low and where applicants for credit may well have been turned down by other types of lender , lenders may feel that they have to discriminate particularly carefully to be sure of recovering their money . |
| 19 | His was a series which I selected , one which had been turned down by one of my more ‘ authentic ’ colleagues , but it was a wonderful success . |
| 20 | AN application for outline permission to erect a detached house at 90 London Road , Holybourne has been turned down by local planners . |
| 21 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 22 | Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database . |
| 23 | Only three of Armenia 's fleet of seven helicopters remained , the rest having been shot down by Azerbaijani forces claiming that they were used for military purposes . |
| 24 | Lieutenant Stapleton suddenly realized with a shock of fear that he was lucky not to have been shot down by one of these tattered lunatics . |
| 25 | If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 ! |
| 26 | The story of the blacksmith 's involvement in the Battle of Drumclog can not be substantiated by any written record of the battle but it has been handed down through many generations of people in the Irvine Valley and spoken of with pride . |
| 27 | Flood-stories have been handed down in many languages from most parts of the world . |
| 28 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 29 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 30 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |