Example sentences of "could be [verb] down [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire stations at Woburn Sands and Wolverton could be shut down if county councillors agree to make cuts in the fire service.But the county says it is trying hard to avoid cuts in that part of the budget . |
| 2 | When the roof of the cooking-stores threatened to blow off , it was his father who held a mat over it , wooden shingles spurting and whirling about him , until the thing could be bound down and weighted . |
| 3 | They used to come a day or two beforehand , you see , so they could be settled down and then race . |
| 4 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 5 | In the less fertile , wilder southern fringes it was on the whole more rewarding to raise stock whose meat could be salted down and whose hides could be tanned and made into clothing , shoes and cooking or storage pots . |
| 6 | And whether he knew it or not , he could be marked down as one of Wainwright and Hayling 's ‘ Fragments ’ — a talented 1960s person who had now matured and wanted to bring his skills back into the mainstream . |
| 7 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 8 | He brushed aside charges that the Government had reneged on its election promises last year by comparing the Government borrowing crisis with the early years of the Thatcher Government in which , he said , taxes had to rise before they could be brought down after borrowing was stabilised . |
| 9 | The bombers could be brought down or exploded in the air by Surface-to-Air Missiles and SAMS were being turned out like sausages , according to Khrushchev , in order to ring Moscow and other cities . |