Example sentences of "are [be] [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see an incredible number of young people , and it worries me immensely that these are people at sixteen who 've been chucked out of their homes , and they are being pushed down by bureaucracy , that they are being penalised for leaving home at sixteen when it is not their own fault , it is the fault of well it is the result of family breakdown that they are being pushed out . |
| 2 | THOUSANDS of children are being struck down by a dysentery-type bug sweeping through nursery schools . |
| 3 | Trees are being cut down at such a rate that the total forest cover of the Earth is decreasing rather than increasing . |
| 4 | The biggest threat is from loss of habitat because the rainforests are being chopped down at such a fast rate . |
| 5 | Course are being broken down into modules and a variety of new teaching and learning styles have to be employed . |
| 6 | It would be useful to know whether there are any similarities in the graves with and without amber in each type of cemetery as it may help us to understand whether such goods are being handed down through society and something of the controls on access to them . |
| 7 | Research shows very clearly that people recognize when they are being spoken down to , and they resent it . |
| 8 | That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels . |
| 9 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |
| 10 | Tragically , these trees are being torn down from the rapidly diminishing rainforests — and are not being replanted . |