Example sentences of "be closed down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of teachers and academics have been murdered , the UES has been closed down on a number of occasions by the army and the UCA subjected to bomb attacks . |
| 2 | Some of the branch lines had been closed down in the Beeching fifties . |
| 3 | The second reactor at the Ignalina nuclear power station has been closed down after a leak of radioactive steam . |
| 4 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 5 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 6 | ZEBRA Parallel , a start-up company based on Alvey research at the Polytechnic of Central London , is to be closed down with the loss of eight jobs . |
| 7 | They 're the only people who can keep anything open out in the sand , and not be closed down by the gangcults . |
| 8 | The London theatres , which had for so long been a particular thorn in the side of Puritan moralists such as William Prynne , were closed down at the outbreak of the civil war and remained shut until the Restoration . |
| 9 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |
| 10 | All radio stations were closed down by the mutineers ; several ministers , including the Prime Minister , were reported to have been arrested and others were seeking asylum in foreign embassies . |
| 11 | The complex is closed down as a safety precaution whenever gales of more than 80mph are forecast . |
| 12 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 13 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 14 | Their own staff had become acutely discontented — they were understaffed and overworked , and after the hype was all over Oxford DHSS was closed down by a strike lasting two months against understaffing . |
| 15 | Four months after this article was written the unit focusing on girls and young women was closed down by the management of the national organization , and we all lost our jobs . |
| 16 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 17 | The so called Sling-shot lift was closed down after the accident . |