Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the initial involuntary reactions had settled down , the overall feeling was a strange mixture of sensations , memories and impressions , not altogether unpleasant . |
| 2 | The whole line of docks seemed to be ablaze and ships in the river , shops , offices , streets of terraced houses and mansions , as well as beautiful and historic buildings like the Walker Art Gallery , the Museum and Central Library , had all suffered as high explosive bombs , land mines and incendiary bombs had rained down upon the city from hundreds of aircraft . |
| 3 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 4 | The fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks . |
| 5 | O.K.W. subsequently claimed that German fighters had shot down seven Hurricanes without loss , yet strangely only three claims can be found for 7/JG 26 , one of which may not even have been confirmed . |
| 6 | Above the knee , Santa shed 1¼ inches , and those flabby thighs had toned down by an inch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hugh Jones ' racing exploits have gone down in tropical history . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In addition several verbal sketches have come down to us : William Hazlitt first met Wordsworth in 1798 and recorded this description : |
| 11 | But at least drugs stopping the development of full-blown AIDS have kept down the death toll in the West . |
| 12 | The Lithuanian authorities have closed down the nuclear reactor at Ignalina because of a unspecified fault . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That day in 1958 the Northern Echo also reported that municipal busmen had turned down an extra five bob a week on their £8 15s , that Cliff Jones Britain 's most expensive footballer at £35,000 had broken a leg and carried a front page headline about the Royal family . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Since 1985 , he says , the number of MIPS in each machine has increased by 35% each year , but the price per MIPS of large systems has gone down by 15% . |
| 18 | By the end of February all basic services had broken down or had been withdrawn and a mass evacuation of non-Bougainvilleans ( both foreigners and Papua New Guineans from other provinces ) was under way . |
| 19 | ( Dixon 1984 : 38–9 ) As a consequence of this incident ( and no doubt others like it ) , the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies has laid down ethical guidelines and imposed strict conditions upon research grant applicants , including linguists . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | It might be argued that children experience difficulties in the area of language development precisely because the normal developmental processes have broken down . |
| 23 | The Convoy Aid Romania coordinator has challenged other mercy groups to a public debate but Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children has turned down the invitation . |
| 24 | I believe that what self-centred men have torn down , other-centred people can build up . |
| 25 | Without giving it much thought , we all assumed that after the present infatuations had cooled down , Andrew would marry Judith , but it never happened , although he did marry twice during his later years in Toronto . |
| 26 | ‘ I first tried to get that kind of raspy voice that comes when the vocal cords have broken down . |
| 27 | Heavy thunderstorms had poured down the day before , but today the sun shone brightly and the air was warm and clear . |
| 28 | The real reason is that competition between the various issuers has forced down the charges levied on the retailers — once as high as 3 to 5 per cent , down to an average of 2.2 per cent in 1988 and now 1.7 per cent and falling . |
| 29 | When Solidarity tabled a motion of no confidence after wage talks involving civil-service workers had broken down , assorted former communists , nationalists and anti-communists seized their chance to embarrass the government while showing support for embattled workers . |
| 30 | 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 . |