Example sentences of "be [vb pp] down in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 2 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 3 | All the normal operating procedures and the emergency operating procedures are written down in the flight manual of an aircraft , one copy of which is carried in the aircraft while another is always available ( to accident investigators , amongst others ) on the ground , and pilots are trained and required to operate their aircraft in conformity with these procedures . |
| 4 | While the original purchase price was £28.8 million , the property had already been written down in the balance sheet to take account of the general fall in values . |
| 5 | Some of the branch lines had been closed down in the Beeching fifties . |
| 6 | Waterloo , having been worn down in the trench warfare , were left with little option but to run the ball and were still in the match when , from 30 yards range , Buckton fashioned a fine try for the lively Saverimutto . |
| 7 | Once again the officers have taken over the ship by some nifty footwork , and the mutineers have been battened down in the fo'csle . |
| 8 | These bands are laid down in the state budget , and a committee of ministerial under-secretaries vets nationalized industries ' collective agreements to make sure that they conform to pay limits . |
| 9 | Position fixes and height data against which to check the glide path and Altimeters , are laid down in the approach charts at specific distances on DME . |
| 10 | The procedure for lodging an appeal , and various other procedural matters , are laid down in the Schedule , but the manner of conducting the appeal hearing is left to the committee itself . |
| 11 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |
| 12 | Eggs are laid down in the autumn and a good digestible protein-rich diet , such as earthworms , should be fed at this time in order to encourage early spawning . |
| 13 | In fact , various conditions are laid down in the section itself ; in particular that the nature of the document must be made clear , and that it must contain a statement by the company 's auditors of their opinion on whether the statement is consistent with the accounts and reports and complies with the section and the regulations . |
| 14 | All the principal details of the scheme are laid down in the foregoing or in the drawings . |
| 15 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 16 | Yes , of course most people are quite happy for us to write the cards , in which case the appropriate message will be noted down in the book . |
| 17 | To straighten the data in figure 11.13 , for example , the curve has to be pulled down in the Y -direction and up in the X -direction ; linearity will therefore probably be improved by raising the Y variable to a power lower down on the ladder and/or by raising the X variable to a power higher up on the ladder . |
| 18 | A dish in any Pacific city east of the longitude of Mexico City — Lima , say , or Quito , or Santiago — will be cranked down in the direction of an equally low point on the eastern horizon — for just as American naval vessels involved in exercises off the Pacific coasts of Peru , Ecuador or Chile are regarded as being part of the US Atlantic Fleet , so communicators , for reasons of pure geometry , think of these countries ' capital cities as part of the Atlantic communications network . |
| 19 | Boyz N the Hood The neighbourhood in question is South Central Los Angeles , a curious half-ghetto half-Brookside with Uzis , where Tre ( Cuba Gooding Jr ) and Ricky ( Morris Chestnut ) stand at a crossroads : will they make it to college and become middle class or be gunned down in the crossfire between rival gangs ? |
| 20 | An earlier proposal was £8 , but that has been scaled down in the face of protest . |
| 21 | An early day motion has also been put down in the House of Commons supporting their case . |
| 22 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 23 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 24 | Harry Moyle himself was rescued after being shot down in the sea ( by Spitfires , in fact ) and was rescued by a fishing boat from North Berwick . |
| 25 | The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests , and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled . |
| 26 | British troops were bogged down in the Flanders quagmire . |
| 27 | It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow ; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April . |
| 28 | Guidelines in this area were laid down in the case of Marshall v Harland & Wolff Ltd ( 1972 ) . |
| 29 | Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it . |
| 30 | Shop windows were smashed , three police officers were injured , and a fan died after being run down in the street . |