Example sentences of "have [vb pp] down [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 2 | The British banks which have written down the value of their loans most aggressively may be attracted by the fund , says Jim Mellon , a director of Tyndall . |
| 3 | That reminds me , did I tell you that the trustees have turned down a request from Annabel ? ’ |
| 4 | Both for different , but similar , reasons have turned down the chance of participating in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in July . |
| 5 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |
| 6 | GALA have turned down an invitation to Currie rugby sevens on Sunday , April 4 — anticipating that they will be involved in a title decider with Melrose three days later . |
| 7 | The pair have tracked down a lot of information about the Pagefield Ironworks including some of the original draughtsmen 's drawings . |
| 8 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 9 | Press it flat with the seam you have sewn down the back of the head of the puppet . |
| 10 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
| 11 | Research also shows that many youngsters in residential care have experienced difficulties with schooling ; for example , over half of all boys in residential care have stayed down a class at least once . |
| 12 | ‘ Once again we have set down a marker for trans-Atlantic travel with a £93 for '93 offer which is the most competitive fare available , ’ said Branson , yesterday . |
| 13 | We have nailed down the lid on the recession . |
| 14 | Manpower productivity has continued to rise and we have brought down the price of electricity in real terms since 1958 when the CEGB was established . ’ |
| 15 | In recent years other radio astronomers in Cambridge and New Mexico have pinned down the positions of previously unidentified galaxies with increasing accuracy . |
| 16 | Police have scaled down the search for a multiple rapist saying they 've no new leads to follow . |
| 17 | Police have scaled down the search for a man who commited at least two rapes , because they have no other leads to follow . |
| 18 | Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group . |