Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke says that , in her case , the offering was laid down for the poor : |
| 2 | then , by setting a fifth of the usual time , a ball park figure was laid down for trail and error , up and down the variables until a best method was agreed by all . |
| 3 | Soon thereafter the machine was shut down for renovation and the experiments ended . |
| 4 | The whole apparatus is collapsed down for introduction into and removal from the gall bladder via a 12 French introducer sheath . |
| 5 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 6 | And when we went then after Christmas the shop was closed down for the |
| 7 | Some of these ‘ patterns ’ are formalized in the police manual , so that the procedure is laid down for dealing with rape cases , domestic disputes , medical examinations , road traffic accidents , and so on . |
| 8 | In more recent years , as the first nuclear stations near the end of their working lives , attention has focused on the waste created when a nuclear power station is shut down for good , the process called decommissioning ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 9 | The request was turned down for fear of creating a traffic hazard as Joseph Pease 's statue later did . |
| 10 | During the 19th auction a Piper Cub was hammered down for $ 17,000 . |
| 11 | In 1921 , for example , the boys section at Bradford Park Avenue was closed down for three months after the referee had been pelted with rubbish , and in the early 1920s the fierce North London rivalries between Arsenal and Spurs flared into open street battles in which some of the more zealous fans were armed with iron bars and knives . |
| 12 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 13 | The housemaid said to me that the daughter and son-in-law were coming down for Easter ( I 've often had a laugh over this ) ; and she said : |
| 14 | For example , a height is laid down for each ILS at which the aircraft should be , on passing over the markers . |
| 15 | In another disruption to the troubled plant 's operation , Kozloduy 's second reactor was shut down for six days in early January after an escape of radioactive material from the central circulation pump . |
| 16 | The first reactor was closed down for repairs earlier this year after a gas leak . |
| 17 | Perhaps we should not be surprised that Parliament is closing down for so long . |
| 18 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 19 | Around me the camp was settling down for the night , bricks securing groundsheets , tent flaps tied tight , kerosene lamps hissing away their shadows . |
| 20 | If one suspect confesses and implicates the other , who does not confess , the confessor will go free as a reward for cooperation , while the partner is sent down for the maximum sentence , 10 years . |
| 21 | You imagine what the guy was putting down for his fourteen thousand pound booklet . |
| 22 | There was not a lot to tour in the inclement weather , though the Bohemia concert party was marked down for a visit , and the bandstand too held promise , though with all these people about , she doubted she would hear the music . |