Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 2 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 3 | If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one . |
| 4 | They 're the only people who can keep anything open out in the sand , and not be closed down by the gangcults . |
| 5 | The bone evidently continued to be washed down by the stream , and it has been shown ( Dodson , 1973 ) that small animal bone is dispersed readily by flowing water . |
| 6 | I want those subsidies to be phased down by the Community , and I also want to encourage British coal to be exported to Germany if that is a way to deal with the problem . |
| 7 | Moving upwards , how could she not be dragged down by the truth about Daisy ? |
| 8 | Ziegler did not want to be slowed down by the prisoner , so he ordered the Frenchman to strip off his boots and coat , then ordered his Sergeant to cut the man 's overall straps . |
| 9 | As it goes up , it will be slowed down by the effect of gravity . |
| 10 | In this case , the decision process will be slowed down by the need for some limited consideration or problem-solving behaviour . |
| 11 | The M.T.A. by its constitution had a power to put on a stop list the name of a member or person who infringed its rule forbidding the sale of articles at other than the list prices relevant thereto unless such person should pay to the Association a fine within limits to be laid down by the Council of the Association . |
| 12 | The national policing objectives which will be laid down by the Home Secretary of the day . |
| 13 | The new constitution would , however , have to conform to a series of guidelines to be set down by the SLORC . |
| 14 | However , a very restrictive express term which tries to prevent an ex-employee making use of mundane skills will be likely to be struck down by the courts as being in restraint of trade . |
| 15 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 16 | Mr Lorenzo contends he fired in self-defence because he was about to be run down by the motorcycle , which was being chased by a police car . |
| 17 | He declined to postpone his visit to Argentina , expressing confidence that a military rebellion which had begun there on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] would be put down by the government of President Carlos Saúl Menem , whom he thanked for sending two Argentinian frigates to the Gulf . |
| 18 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |
| 19 | The noisy exchanges in the House of Commons and her determination not to be shouted down by the opposition make her sound hectoring and strident . |
| 20 | She shrieked when he went near her with the scissors , and had to be held down by the nurse so that he could take off about twelve inches of her golden curls . |
| 21 | ‘ Can you bear to be held down by the bonds of marriage ? |