Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] down by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remained in occupation until 16 October 1979 , immediately after the coup against Romero , when the factory warehouse was burnt down by the company and the women dislodged by armed members of the Treasury Police . |
| 2 | This would have brought Mr Bush into the case as his Vice-Presidential office was the first in Washington to be contacted from Central America when an aircraft was shot down by the Sandinistas . |
| 3 | Fourteen Mafia bosses have been arrested by Sicilian detectives after a woman 's Mafia Godfather lover was gunned down by the organisation . |
| 4 | The one on Parson 's Green was brought down by the ARP boys and packed tidily away , and then we were granted an AA gun , all to ourselves . |
| 5 | A new federal law prohibiting the destruction of the US flag was struck down by the Supreme Court on June 11 . |
| 6 | At first , the rate of synthesis was slowed down by the poison , but after evolving through about nine test-tube transfer ‘ generations ’ , a new strain of RNA that was resistant to the poison had been selected . |
| 7 | An initial scheme not to include the College of Art in the Polytechnic was turned down by the DES . |
| 8 | The offer was turned down by the then philistine government ( history repeats itself ? ) and the collection returned to Tabley House . |
| 9 | Here , the Conciliation Committee had rejected the union 's advice on an acceptable settlement and the Ministry of Shipping 's offer was turned down by the men after a ballot vote . |
| 10 | The manner of enforcement was laid down by the statute . |
| 11 | The uprising was put down by the action of the police and the army , and an unknown number of people were killed , among them Muhammadu Marwa Maitatsine , leader of the fanatical sect which was at the centre of the trouble . |
| 12 | Thirdly , as regards the Science Policy Research Unit 's proposal to assess engineering research , no member of the unit has claimed that the project was turned down by the Social Science Research Council because of ‘ lobbying by outsiders ’ . |
| 13 | However , the Working Party report was turned down by the Council on the grounds that its proposals did ‘ not sufficiently reflect its value as an independent and impartial body for setting academic standards . ’ |
| 14 | A similar move for this year was turned down by the Home Office . |
| 15 | A similar move for this year was turned down by the Home Office . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A prosecution appeal against the overturning of North 's convictions was turned down by the Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 27 . |