Example sentences of "[noun pl] are not [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone calls for the library might have a direct line so that these calls are not put down to Canterbury and then transferred again . |
| 2 | Interestingly , the shrouds are taken down to a deep , galvanised , mild steel I-beam which runs between this bulkhead and the main bulkhead forward of the mast : ties are not taken down to the hull itself , so the lockers and shelving behind the settees remain unobstructed . |
| 3 | Some Tory backbenchers are terrified that if these bills are not brought down , they will lose their seats and the Government will be thrown out of office . |
| 4 | Sam said , ‘ The floorboards are n't nailed down much . |
| 5 | On the title track of his début album , Waits sang : ‘ The dreams are n't broken down here , they 're walking with a limp , ’ and that line offers a neat résumé of his lyrical concerns through the Seventies . |
| 6 | He said some west African governments strictly regulate the mahogany trade so immature trees are not cut down as they are elsewhere . |
| 7 | High technology industries are not tied down by transport costs : one tonne of microchips is worth anything up to 100 000 times a tonne of steel plate , so chips tend to travel by air . |
| 8 | To represent this spiders are not slowed down by crossing difficult ground or obstacles . |