Example sentences of "it have been [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 2 | The story of the blacksmith 's involvement in the Battle of Drumclog can not be substantiated by any written record of the battle but it has been handed down through many generations of people in the Irvine Valley and spoken of with pride . |
| 3 | In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation . |
| 4 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 7 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 8 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 9 | It had been shut down in 1991 after an International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) report said it was in " poor condition " [ see ED 48 ] . |
| 10 | ‘ And it would n't have done that if it had been driven down to Streatley and back ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's been shut down for a fortnight , it 's all getting modernized and all that , upgraded . |
| 12 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 13 | It 's only cheaper because it 's in a sale , it 's been reduced down from forty pounds , it was forty pounds before . |