Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old houses get pulled down , or changed into something else . |
| 2 | But since 1985 governments have cut down drastically on the amount they are spending on health . |
| 3 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 4 | Hugh Jones ' racing exploits have gone down in tropical history . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the world 's top players have turned down a tempting financial offer aimed at attracting them away from the Ulster Milk Games match between Europe and Asia in Belfast on June 8 . |
| 6 | In addition several verbal sketches have come down to us : William Hazlitt first met Wordsworth in 1798 and recorded this description : |
| 7 | But at least drugs stopping the development of full-blown AIDS have kept down the death toll in the West . |
| 8 | The Lithuanian authorities have closed down the nuclear reactor at Ignalina because of a unspecified fault . |
| 9 | She says that three shops have closed down since Christmas . |
| 10 | Under pressure from a combination of population increase , growing national demands and increased state intervention , local or community systems for the protection and management of forests , surface and groundwater , grazing lands and other natural resources have broken down , resulting in a damaging shift towards open access exploitation of finite ‘ common pool ’ resources . |
| 11 | 100 reasons not to vote Tory Ships have gone down , taxes have gone up , the Home Secretary got a criminal record , John Major said a lot of silly things . |
| 12 | These moves have gone down fairly well in most quarters though again political cynics see decentralisation as a long-term ploy by Chevenement to build up personal political support in the provinces . |
| 13 | he says the toilet rolls the soft ones have dropped down , cos I get the soft Kleenex ones , everybody 's complaining about and he said they 'd dropped them three pound , is it twenty nine ? , to two eighty nine now |
| 14 | Most of these industries have closed down and only a few survive as a reminder of the type of activity found adjacent to the railway in past years . |
| 15 | The German environmental authorities have closed down the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research , a nuclear research centre based in East Berlin after officials discovered massive contamination of the soil on the premises during routine tests . |
| 16 | It 's wrong to suggest all barriers have broken down . |
| 17 | During the 1980s , social security arrangements of all kinds have broken down . |
| 18 | It is commonly argued that nationalization takes place in order to socialize the losses of sectors of capital where capitalist relations have broken down ( e.g. Fine and O'Donnell 1981 ) or to resolve an immediate crisis in a sector of the economy , as with the creation of the Italian state holding company IRI by Mussolini in response to the impending collapse of the banking system ( Maraffi 1980 ) . |
| 19 | It might be argued that children experience difficulties in the area of language development precisely because the normal developmental processes have broken down . |
| 20 | I believe that what self-centred men have torn down , other-centred people can build up . |
| 21 | ‘ I first tried to get that kind of raspy voice that comes when the vocal cords have broken down . |
| 22 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 23 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
| 24 | And all too often , American companies get bogged down somewhere between invention and production . |
| 25 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 26 | Several placements have broken down , including that for one person in this study ( WG ) , who was returned to hospital at the last datapoint ( this person has since been brought back to a staffed house in her home district ) . |
| 27 | Mediation ( see Chapter 11 ) is a faster and more flexible process where internal negotiations have broken down . |
| 28 | Deaths amongst babies and very young children have gone down by 40 per cent . |
| 29 | Surely it is the fact all the other counties have gone down the same road that has persuaded Yorkshire that , in order to compete on equal terms , they must follow suit . |
| 30 | Pat 's coiffured cacti have gone down very well at all the horticultural competitions . |