Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] down from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
| 3 | The importance of housing costs in the retail price index has been scaled down from 172 per mille to 164 , motoring costs from 143 to 136 per mille , and food from 152 to 144 per mille . |
| 4 | The self-destructive streak in Scottish football is a legacy that has been handed down from Hughie Gallacher in the '20s to Mo Johnston in the present day , but it finds its most bloated expression in Slim Jim , a player whose massive reputation was built on his slender athletic frame but whose downfall has been a rake 's progress of late nights , seedy bars and relentless beer bellies . |
| 5 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 6 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 7 | True , inflation has been brought down from around 30% a year during the gung-ho days of the disgraced party chief , Mr Zhao Ziyang , to single figures . |
| 8 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 9 | There was something suicidal about the whole pretentious enterprise , which Dustin should have been talked down from before he leaped . |
| 10 | By the end of March about 40 tons of ore lay on the bank , having been carted down from Paddy End , and was ready for dressing . |
| 11 | It was n't likely that anyone would come that way , for the hen crees were situated in the field just beyond the hedge , and the sheep were there too , having been brought down from the hills after ten of their already small stock had been taken . |
| 12 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 13 | Now , what in fact had been watered down from your original keenness in the late sixties in terms of what actually emerged in that White Paper ? |
| 14 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 15 | The number of ministries had been slimmed down from 32 to 24 and a number of non-party " technicians " were included . |
| 16 | Until that moment Evelyn had not realized exactly what had taken place when she had been let down from over the machine . |
| 17 | The word had been handed down from the so-called serial killer , Alan Yentob , the newly-appointed BBC1 controller . |
| 18 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 19 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 20 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 21 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 22 | Now , although St Petersburg is full of some of the greatest treasures of the world , full of riches that have been handed down from the imperial days , there is very little about the tsar and his family at the time of the revolution . |
| 23 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
| 24 | It 's not tablets of stone which have been brought down from Mount Sinai forever to remain unalterable . |
| 25 | It 's only cheaper because it 's in a sale , it 's been reduced down from forty pounds , it was forty pounds before . |