Example sentences of "[verb] closed down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DTI could have closed down the investment business there and then . |
| 2 | Or maybe they had closed down the Project and abandoned him . |
| 3 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 4 | The fat undertaker had closed down the tailgate of the hearse and stood about on the gravel , twirling his keys . |
| 5 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |