Example sentences of "have [adv] be [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stayed at the Xenias Melathron , a little old hotel that has since been pulled down , but has an after-life in her story ‘ The Voices ’ , to which the amusing waiter Polycarp , who brought her breakfast to her , also contributed . |
| 2 | ‘ The investigation has effectively been closed down . ’ |
| 3 | She went on : ‘ The image has obviously been watered down these last seasons and the situation must be reversed . ’ |
| 4 | Roman was hoping to treat Stephen for six months , but an application to the extension of his visa has just been turned down . |
| 5 | That home , however , has just been closed down as part of county hall 's budget cuts . |
| 6 | But before the idea is condemned out of hand , let us remember that the price of petrol has just been brought down by 18p a gallon . |
| 7 | One of the worst offenders , the Polam lighting factory at Rzeszow , has already been shut down . |
| 8 | In general , growth is a moulding process , and occurs at later stages of development when the main body plan has already been laid down . |
| 9 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 10 | Royal Ordnance has gradually been scaled down since 1987 when it was privatised . |
| 11 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
| 12 | As the language of the Vedic scriptures , Sanskrit has always been looked down upon by tradition as the language of the divine . |
| 13 | His Halifax , W1041 ‘ B ’ , has also been shot down but he survived and escaped via Sweden . |
| 14 | Aside from integration difficulties , OSF has also been bogged down trying to figure out how to implement a standard version of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture ( Corba ) , a mechanism for managing objects across distributed systems . |
| 15 | Aside from integration difficulties , the Open Software Foundation has also been bogged down trying to figure out how to implement a standard version of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture mechanism for managing objects across distributed systems . |
| 16 | An early day motion has also been put down in the House of Commons supporting their case . |
| 17 | That has now been toned down to special envoy , who British officials hope will be on a fact-finding mission rather than being the mediator originally suggested . |
| 18 | Two-and-a-half years later it has now been turned down . |
| 19 | The inflated catalogue of works ascribed to him as a result of late nineteenth-century adulation has now been stripped down to basics . |
| 20 | At first , this suggestion seemed to apply to all accounts — which certainly would have been taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut — but it has now been narrowed down to those of ‘ public interest ’ companies , with a fairly generous definition of which companies are of public interest . |
| 21 | The shadowy collaboration between Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc to put the Macintosh Finder user interface and Toolbox applications development aids atop Novell 's DR DOS clone of Microsoft Corp 's MS-DOS and network client software to give the poor relations in the graphical user interface stakes , the iAPX-86 personal computer users , some of the joys of the Macintosh , has now been pinned down pretty firmly by MacWeek , and it appears that the resulting product will be marketed by Novell . |
| 22 | DEC had the prime position on the Show floor , a spot which has now been handed down to IBM . |
| 23 | One of the plants , the PT Para Amino Phenol factory , has now been closed down . |
| 24 | The application for an extension has again been turned down . |
| 25 | We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that . |
| 26 | A proposal by the unit to investigate engineering research has recently been turned down by the Social Science Research Council . |
| 27 | Certain principles have never yet been contested in any court of law so that precedent for their consideration has never been laid down . |
| 28 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 29 | Preston enquired , thinking they 'd probably been put down years ago , but the Flying Horses were alive and kicking and in at least as good a shape as she was . |
| 30 | It had also been discovered that ANT , which had since been closed down , had been preparing other illegal export deals worth nearly US$900,000,000 involving items including valuable metals , uncut diamonds and classified aviation equipment . |