Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even if Telecom could get planning permission for its Ballsbridge site ( although it is difficult to see anyone now wanting to get caught up in a possible planning scandal on top of what has already gone down ) the development costs are going to be huge . |
| 32 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 33 | Some peers , led by Baroness Thatcher , are keen for a referendum , which the Commons has already turned down . |
| 34 | What is clear is that if economic growth — which has already slowed down , particularly during the 1980s , in most of the industrial countries — continues to decline , while the claims of governments to legitimacy remain founded primarily upon their ability to promote such growth , then we can anticipate a period of increasing political instability and turbulence . |
| 35 | The New Zealanders continue to strive for new Everests in rugby achievement and their coach , Alex Wyllie , has already thrown down the gauntlet by stating : ‘ If we lose a single game we will consider the tour a failure . ’ |
| 36 | Colour Sergeant Skuse has already driven down to the Soviet Checkpoint , one kilometre away in East Germany , to warn the Russians that a British military convoy is expected to enter the city . |
| 37 | He has already laid down a marker by setting the fastest time in history during pre-season testing at the oval track in Phoenix , Arizona , where the next round of the Indycar series will be held on 4 April . |
| 38 | The Bank of Japan has already nudged down overnight rates ; if the spring pay round shows wage rises to be moderating , it could then cut the discount rate . |
| 39 | Rushdie has anyway turned down the offer , since , as he says ‘ it 's my job to produce the stuff , not to review it ’ . |
| 40 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |
| 41 | As the law stands in England and Wales there is only one ground , namely that the marriage has irretrievably broken down . |
| 42 | In theory it says that there 's only one ground for divorce — the marriage has irretrievably broken down . |
| 43 | It pretends that there 's single no-fault ground for divorce — that the marriage has irretrievably broken down — but in practice it encourages nearly three-quarters of divorcing couples to rely on fault based grounds — adultery , or unreasonable behaviour as it 's usually called — and then makes it difficult for anybody to defend allegations , irrespective of whether that was the real reason why the marriage broke down . |
| 44 | A TELEPHONE moan line that promised to pass complaints about British Rail to the chairman has mysteriously shut down . |
| 45 | Amstrad has taken a £7.24 million charge for the restructuring of its Spanish subsidiary , and has also written down computer stock by £3.6 million more . |
| 46 | It has also scaled down payouts for redundancies , so as not to exceed the $1.5bn restructuring charge it was hit with two months ago . |
| 47 | Double-digit inflation has also pushed down the average soldier 's standard of living . |
| 48 | And Clough has also cracked down on a similar plea from right back Brian Laws . |
| 49 | Video … the applause has nearly died down after it 's highly successful cinema run but here 's one of the weirdest films of the year , ready to bring the screams into your sitting room . |
| 50 | But with our increased intake of animal fat in the last couple of generations , our bodies ' capacity to adapt has often broken down and the cholesterol level has simply risen higher in many individuals . |
| 51 | William Hill said it refuses to accept wagers on the state of royal marriages and has often turned down bets on a Charles and Diana split . |
| 52 | Put an entry in the third block and er with the worksheet status again and the number has now gone down forty eight . |
| 53 | While still chairman of both Gardiner and ASH , Tom Buffett has now stepped down as head of Scantronic . |
| 54 | While still chairman of both Gardiner and ASH , Tom Buffett has now stepped down as head of Scantronic . |
| 55 | Friends of Dr Owen say that his farewell advice to the nation — he has now stood down as an MP — is intended to avoid damaging the chances for his two remaining SDP colleagues , Rosie Barnes and John Cartwright , who are fighting to hold on to their south-east London seats . |
| 56 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 57 | Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down . |
| 58 | But the company which took his money just two months ago has now closed down . |
| 59 | Although Mr Cossiga has now backed down , it was his most serious mishap to date . |
| 60 | After the frantic design years of the early 1980s board design has now settled down to a fairly stable format and it is only construction techniques that are still changing slightly . |