Example sentences of "be knocked down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marsham Street development has been adjudged too brutal for the London landscape and will be knocked down to be replaced by a single six-storey scheme . |
| 2 | Shirts that left Comme des Garçons with a one-hundred-pound price tag will be knocked down for a bargain price ; and a man 's shirt that looks good on a woman will cost more than the men-only variety . |
| 3 | It does not assume any proof demonstrating its validity , and therefore it can not be knocked down for not offering it . |
| 4 | Now the arcade will be knocked down with sheltered homes for the elderly built on the site . |
| 5 | In this sense , pluralism has for some become something of an Aunt Sally , to be knocked down through juxtaposing the idealised equal distribution of power assumed in pluralist theory with the actual inequalities in the distribution of power found in Western liberal democracies . |
| 6 | It would be a disaster if Mr Museveni were to be knocked down by the proverbial bus . |
| 7 | If you try to speak to any body you will be ignored , if you get in the way you 'll be knocked down in the wild scramble to get goods away to Paris , London , Brussels , and all the great centres of northern and eastern France . |