Example sentences of "been [vb pp] down [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
| 2 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 3 | Just as he could have received promotion over the years , but had always been turned down in favour of someone younger . |
| 4 | Recollections have been handed down by word of mouth , of spindle spinning and early spinners in wool and flax , who lived at Adamthwaite . |
| 5 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 6 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
| 7 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 8 | That home , however , has just been closed down as part of county hall 's budget cuts . |
| 9 | Six small unions in Gaza had been closed down by Israel in 1967 , and only allowed to re-open in 1979 , on condition they neither held fresh elections nor recruited new members . |
| 10 | But it was the ritual tramp across Ilkley Moor — or Rombalds Moor , as it is more properly but less popularly known that was the favourite pilgrimage ( and so it remains , to the extent that the track through the purple heather has been worn down in part to bare rock ) . |
| 11 | I 've been invited down to Plymouth for a party at the weekend . ’ |
| 12 | Any private business which has been set down for consideration at Seven o'clock on an allotted day shall , instead of being considered as provided by Standing Orders , be considered at the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bil on that day , and paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the private business for a period of three hours from the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bill or , if those proceedings are concluded before Ten o'clock , for a period equal to the time between Seven o'clock and the conclusion of those proceedings . |
| 13 | These small rows of houses look as if they had been dumped down like baggage on a railway platform while the owner goes for a sandwich . |
| 14 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |
| 15 | All this for an eighteen-year-old who , just over a year before , had been feared — in the context of the time — unmanageable and a little while before that had been sunk down without trace behind the haberdashery counter in Port Talbot 's Co-operative shop . |
| 16 | The custom fell out of favour at the turn of this century and I suspect that , as a reaction to the damage the treatment caused , the contrary view that teething is harmless has been passed down through generations of doctors . |
| 17 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 18 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 19 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 20 | Or perhaps another of the cai living quarters had again been burned down by coolies in one of the other villages ? |
| 21 | Others have been gunned down at home in front of their children . |