Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 2 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 3 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 4 | The common law rule on this was laid down by the Court of Appeal in Cresswell v. Sirl but this rule has been replaced , so far as the protection of livestock against dogs is concerned , by section 9 of the Animals Act . |
| 5 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 6 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |