Example sentences of "were [verb] down in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 2 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 4 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 5 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 6 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 7 | In South-west England block and basin limestones and shales and spilitic basic volcanics were laid down in an extensional basin developed at the western end of the Rheno-Hercynian zone . |