Example sentences of "been [vb pp] down on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 2 | Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose . |
| 3 | Thus twenty tons of explosives could have been rained down on the Voie Sacrée each day , not to mention demoralising night attacks . |
| 4 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 5 | When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level . |
| 6 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |