Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] down for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 2 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 3 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 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 | This is especially applicable for those that are not yet ready to drink and therefore need to be laid down for a year or more . |
| 7 | How then can the term ‘ mass medium ’ be pinned down for the period 1945 — 90 ? |
| 8 | Shirts that left Comme des Garçons with a one-hundred-pound price tag will be knocked down for a bargain price ; and a man 's shirt that looks good on a woman will cost more than the men-only variety . |
| 9 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 10 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 11 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 12 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 13 | The following techniques are outlawed under s3 : restricting the right to bid to more than one article ; goods being knocked down for a price less than the highest bid ; or where there are " free " gifts . |
| 14 | It 's been shut down for a fortnight , it 's all getting modernized and all that , upgraded . |
| 15 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |
| 16 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 17 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was not a lot to tour in the inclement weather , though the Bohemia concert party was marked down for a visit , and the bandstand too held promise , though with all these people about , she doubted she would hear the music . |
| 21 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 22 | Clearly suffering from the after-effects of a hip injury , she was knocked down for a koka — just three points — by the Soviet Elena Petrova , but it was enough to wipe out her hopes of a third consecutive world title . |
| 23 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 24 | The Shell-owned Eider oil production platform , with 38 people on board , was shut down for a while . |
| 25 | On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong . |