Example sentences of "this was [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 2 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 3 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 4 | It was also of course , we were put forward for objective two , this was turned down by these two commissioners simply because they sliced off two percent of the application . |
| 5 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 6 | This was put down to his experiences in Vienna and the intense strain of his life after leaving school . |
| 7 | All this was washed down with unlimited quantities of wine , beer , porter and champagne . |
| 8 | The common law rule on this was laid down by the Court of Appeal in Cresswell v. Sirl but this rule has been replaced , so far as the protection of livestock against dogs is concerned , by section 9 of the Animals Act . |
| 9 | This was laid down in Allhusen v Whittell [ 1867 ] LR 4 Eq 295 ) but the rule is often excluded in wills and if so it does not apply . |
| 10 | That could well be a bit of verisimilitude , it may well be the original man Moses was a powerful man with a powerful temper and perhaps this was come down to us er as , as a bit of historical truth , but erm nevertheless the whole figure of Moses and his laws by later generations and this , this th what Freud is trying to do is to erm undo this rewriting the process again truth . |