Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] down on [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli army denied claims by Islamic Jihad that three of their members flying hang gliders to attack Israel were shot down on Oct. 29 in southern Lebanon . |
| 2 | On Aug. 13 , 1989 , Richard Darman , head of the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) , publicly warned that high interest rates could bring about a recession , but such differences of opinion were played down on Oct. 13 by the Secretary of the Treasury , Nicholas Brady . |
| 3 | In a symbolic gesture of the KGB 's demise , the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky , first head of the Cheka ( forerunner of the KGB ) , in front of its Moscow headquarters ( the Lubyanka ) was torn down on Aug. 22 . |
| 4 | Azerbaijani villages came under attack from Armenian forces , and a helicopter was shot down on April 11 . |
| 5 | A significant court ruling on the subject of sexual harassment was handed down on April 16 , when a judge in Fukuoka ruled that a publishing company had violated the rights of a former female employee who had felt obliged to leave her job after allegations of alcoholism and sexual promiscuity against her . |
| 6 | All the photographs were contributed free by some of the world 's best mountain photographers , keen to support the aim of the book — raising cash to build the Thyangboche Monastery which was burnt down on January 19 , 1989 . |
| 7 | A " counter-revolutionary armed rebellion " by " a small number of ruffians … under the cloak of religion " was put down on April 5-6 in Baren , near Kashgar in Xinjiang . |
| 8 | Japan 's oldest nuclear reactor was shut down on Feb. 10 after the rupture of a pipe in its cooling system . |