Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] closed down " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the bloke told me that twenty five corner shops have closed down in South Bank , which is a tiny area , in ten years . |
| 2 | She says that three shops have closed down since Christmas . |
| 3 | The clothing and electronics factories have closed down in the Northeast , and the shifts specially designed for mothers , the part-time and twilight , were the first to go . |
| 4 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 5 | POLICE have closed down a massage business operating in the room where prostitute Lynne Trenholm was brutally murdered . |
| 6 | POLICE have closed down a massage parlour operating in the room where prostitute Lynne Trenholm was murdered . |
| 7 | By 1968 , both eugenics journals had closed down and in 1989 the Eugenics Society was terminated . |
| 8 | Most of these industries have closed down and only a few survive as a reminder of the type of activity found adjacent to the railway in past years . |
| 9 | The German environmental authorities have closed down the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research , a nuclear research centre based in East Berlin after officials discovered massive contamination of the soil on the premises during routine tests . |
| 10 | The Lithuanian authorities have closed down the nuclear reactor at Ignalina because of a unspecified fault . |
| 11 | Clinics have closed down , essential drugs have n't been bought or distributed , health workers have been unpaid and had to revert to other ways of earning a living . |
| 12 | Tomorrow night we move away from the Chilean coast and travel 13,500ft up into the Bolivian Andes , where Oxfam is helping the indigenous Indian people who are struggling to make a living now that their mines have closed down and their farmland been destroyed by drought . |
| 13 | The Pools had closed down and Eileen and Joe were unemployed but Littlewood 's had made arrangements for their staff to sign on for unemployment pay at the Edge Lane office . |