Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only can you find out the results of addition quickly after all the figures have been written down , you can also predict the results of adding together three rows of figures after only one has been written down . |
| 2 | Let us hope that it is Mr Clarke who needs an ambulance that has been stood down . ’ |
| 3 | Washington state 's so-called Erotic Music Bill , signed into law last June by the governor , has been struck down as unconstitutional by a state superior court . |
| 4 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 5 | The body has been cut down and lies in the gatehouse there . |
| 6 | Far too much of the forest has been cut down already , but I think there 's enough to enable Nahum and his people to enjoy a traditional way of life . |
| 7 | However , television is such a major part of people 's lives that simple human interaction has been cut down to a minimum . |
| 8 | The snow had drifted deep over the path that has been carved down to the chasm and we soon lost it , progressing by kicking steps into the hard snow . |
| 9 | The Jovian atmosphere has been observed down to about the 1 bar altitude , and throughout this region the predominant motion is east-west . |
| 10 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Manufacturing industry is now expected to grow by 1.6 per cent this year , against only 0.5 per cent last November , but the forecast for 1994 has been revised down to 2.8 per cent from 3.1 per cent . |
| 13 | Manufacturing capacity has been scaled down to bring it into line with projected demand . |
| 14 | The inquiry has been scaled down over the year as leads have fizzled out . |
| 15 | The importance of housing costs in the retail price index has been scaled down from 172 per mille to 164 , motoring costs from 143 to 136 per mille , and food from 152 to 144 per mille . |
| 16 | An earlier proposal was £8 , but that has been scaled down in the face of protest . |
| 17 | It has been called down south for duty owing to the weight restrictions on the Henley branch . |
| 18 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 19 | ELEVEN kilograms of highly enriched uranium which went missing from Dounray nuclear processing plant has been tracked down . |
| 20 | A NATIONAL treasure has been tracked down to a German museum after it was allegedly stolen by a man using a metal detector . |
| 21 | Sally Grace , a dialogue coach who has taught at RADA , has been sent down to Eldorado 's £2 million set in southern Spain to help improve the actors ' diction . |
| 22 | It has been shut down since the early 1970 's and now functions as a radar station known as RAF Portreath . |
| 23 | The plant has been shut down since the incident . |
| 24 | The others are Berkeley in Gloucestershire , which has been shut down , and Bradwell Point ( Essex ) and Hinkley Point A ( Somerset ) which , after safety reviews , have been allowed to continue . |
| 25 | The plant has been shut down by the government pending investigations . |
| 26 | The second of Russia 's two reactors producing weapons-grade plutonium has been shut down . |
| 27 | The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in northwest England has been shut down after a leak of six gallons of plutonium inside a sealed unit where liquid plutonium is evaporated to form a solid oxide for storage . |
| 28 | A nuclear power plant in Oregon , USA , has been shut down permanently years before its planned decommissioning date because the operators considered the costs of safety measures and repair work too high . |
| 29 | Within the existing topic framework , speaker K 's saying that 's good money is an example of speaking topically , for her , but , for speaker J , the time co-ordinate within the topic framework has been narrowed down by his preceding remarks . |
| 30 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |