Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] down in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An earlier proposal was £8 , but that has been scaled down in the face of protest . |
| 2 | It was the first time an Iraqi plane has been shot down in the southern no-fly zone , set up to prevent Saddam attacking the Shi'ites . |
| 3 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 6 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 7 | But according to Chris Cowdrey , who made his England debut in Bombay in November 1984 just 48 hours after British High Commissioner Percy Norris had been gunned down in the streets nearby , tight security could suffocate the England players . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some of the branch lines had been closed down in the Beeching fifties . |
| 10 | Once again the officers have taken over the ship by some nifty footwork , and the mutineers have been battened down in the fo'csle . |