Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 2 | The snow had drifted deep over the path that has been carved down to the chasm and we soon lost it , progressing by kicking steps into the hard snow . |
| 3 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 4 | The inquiry has been scaled down over the year as leads have fizzled out . |
| 5 | An earlier proposal was £8 , but that has been scaled down in the face of protest . |
| 6 | The plant has been shut down since the incident . |
| 7 | The plant has been shut down by the government pending investigations . |
| 8 | It was the first time an Iraqi plane has been shot down in the southern no-fly zone , set up to prevent Saddam attacking the Shi'ites . |
| 9 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | To load a program into the computer : this does not mean that the future has been planned down to the last detail , that everything is written ‘ up above ’ . |
| 11 | A request from Shetland farmers to ban all imports of dairy cattle to save their stocks from BSE infection has been turned down by the Shetland Island Council . |
| 12 | A major mining project has been turned down by the Australian Labour government in favour of preserving species unique to the area and defending the land rights of Aborigines . |
| 13 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 14 | It is this tradition which I suspect has been handed down over the generations in particular families , but which is dying out . |
| 15 | In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation . |
| 16 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 17 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 18 | Much of the credit for Mansell 's success has been put down to the sophistication and reliability of the Didcot developed Williams car . |
| 19 | A story has been passed down with the spoon to explain how it came to be repaired . |
| 20 | The secret of their success has been passed down through the Arkells generations . |
| 21 | A layer 2 inches ( 5 cm ) thick suppresses weed growth , reduces moisture evaporation , is easily scratched open to help air penetration , and as it decomposes is pulled down into the soil by worms . |
| 22 | Yeah , well John 's been done down by the black people ! |