Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1867 the pet dog ( no name , no breed ) is killed by poison which has been laid down for rats . |
| 2 | Any private business which has been set down for consideration at Seven o'clock on an allotted day shall , instead of being considered as provided by Standing Orders , be considered at the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bil on that day , and paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the private business for a period of three hours from the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bill or , if those proceedings are concluded before Ten o'clock , for a period equal to the time between Seven o'clock and the conclusion of those proceedings . |
| 3 | In the old days before the distracting influences of radio and television , the fixed routine of the adult inhabitants after the day 's work was done was to settle down for an evening 's knitting , a craft both men and women practised assiduously , on the outside galleries in summer and by candlelight in front of a peat fire in winter . |
| 4 | All you have to do is look down for the B numbers , now |
| 5 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 6 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 7 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 8 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 9 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 10 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 11 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 12 | Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings . |
| 13 | But Lanfranc seems not even to have noticed that the community still followed , however imperfectly , the order of monastic life which had been laid down for all English monasteries a hundred years earlier , of which two copies from the pre-Conquest library at Christ Church , Canterbury , still survive . |
| 14 | His advance had been laid down for him in definite terms , and he held to it , but taking his own precautions along the way . |
| 15 | The plant had been closed down for repairs following an explosion at the St Petersburg nuclear power station , where similar equipment was in use [ see p. 38843 ] . |
| 16 | At the same time there was the dread news that a Simpson divorce case had been set down for hearing at Ipswich , chosen because it could there be more easily hurried on , for 27 October . |
| 17 | However , this is not done where Ord 17 r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies , unless the case had been set down for hearing in the High Court before transfer or a request for a day for hearing to be fixed is made under Ord 17 , r 11(3) ( d ) . |
| 18 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 20 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 21 | These have been taken down for conservation and it is hoped to replace them with copies . |
| 22 | Over by the birch trees , Mervyn Finch had started to play his squeezebox to Vera ‘ Got All the Things There ’ Loomis , and a few of the adults were dancing the old dances that have been passed down for nearly 200 years . |
| 23 | Route finding is easy , though four tunnels which originally formed part of the railway line have been closed down for safety reasons . |
| 24 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 25 | It 's been shut down for a fortnight , it 's all getting modernized and all that , upgraded . |