Example sentences of "[vb pp] down in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 2 | But the child protection system had broken down in this instance , not because of the excessive timidity or woolliness of social workers who missed the warning signs and failed to act , but because of their over confidence in medical diagnoses and their ready reliance on compulsory measures to remove the children . |
| 3 | Organic molecules broken down in this way release virtually as much energy as they are capable of releasing — so such ‘ oxidative ’ breakdown is extremely efficient . |
| 4 | The table top and the bottle provide the main compositional accents , while the remainder of the surface is broken down in secondary vertical and horizontal sections . |
| 5 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 6 | What 's happened is that policy makers 've shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs they 're protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er , to G A T T do n't come under erm G A T T regulations , what those tariffs do nevertheless , tariffs have , have come down in manufactured goods right , erm , since the second world war when G A T T was er , was established . |
| 7 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 8 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 9 | Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel . |
| 10 | Then they were sat down in neat rows , boys on one side and girls on the other . |
| 11 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 12 | The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome . |
| 13 | Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression . |
| 14 | That 's if no-one steps in meantime and makes an offer that ca n't be refused ( by the way , an offer from Oracle Corp was turned down in 1990 ) . |
| 15 | Brixton itself was one of only two colleges which had nationally recognized diplomas in the field ( it was one of only four specialist institutions in the field ) , and as a member of the School he experienced the ‘ shock of rejection ’ , when its degree proposals were turned down in 1967–68 . |
| 16 | But his application was turned down in 1985 , 1986 and 1991 . |
| 17 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |
| 18 | Alex Murphy , a determined Detroit cop , is shot down in cold blood during a risky low-profile operation . |
| 19 | They were shot down in cold blood with their friends , by the KGB . ’ |
| 20 | When the ‘ phoney war ’ ended and British aircraft were shot down in larger numbers , the camp became too small to hold all aircrew prisoners . |
| 21 | The relief will be available instead of the 25% writing-down allowance available for the year in which the expenditure is incurred , with the balance being written down in future years at 25% . |
| 22 | Another version of this Trojan origin legend was written down in 727 by the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum . |
| 23 | It was later written down in two books called the Mishnah and the Talmud . |
| 24 | The snag was , everything had seemed perfectly fine and reasonable written down in black and white — but the book had omitted to mention that on snow the skis took on a life all of their own . |
| 25 | ( b ) They are not written down in any formal sense in that they are not expressed as Acts of Parliament nor are they established by judicial precedent . |
| 26 | and written down in steady copperplate . |
| 27 | The mouth is drawn down in bitter disgust , the eyes nearly closed , unseeing . |
| 28 | Flood-stories have been handed down in many languages from most parts of the world . |
| 29 | Indeed the hard and fast distinction between firms becomes very blurred when we find some supplier companies located within the plant of the parent firm , when the smaller company is managed by ex employees of the larger one or when the bulk of the small firm machinery is handed down in second-hand sales from their principal buyer . |
| 30 | It had and he duly got down in two more for another of his safe pars . |