Example sentences of "[vb pp] down by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 2 | Alcohol is broken down by the chemicals called enzymes in the liver through which blood circulates once every four minutes . |
| 3 | They set off down the lane , Elizabeth , Jonna and Jonadab going ahead on three heavy horses and the men and dogs following , slipping and skidding on the hard-packed snow trodden down by the shires . |
| 4 | The upsurge in interest in how small businesses are funded , reflects growing concern that they 've been let down by the banks , and the realization that they are the most significant source of employment as the country struggles to emerge from the recession . |
| 5 | Here , the Conciliation Committee had rejected the union 's advice on an acceptable settlement and the Ministry of Shipping 's offer was turned down by the men after a ballot vote . |
| 6 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 7 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 8 | A supply aircraft , carrying weapons to the contras , was shot down by the Sandinistas at the beginning of October 1986 ; and on November 3rd a Lebanese magazine , Al-Shiraa , broke the story of American dealings with Iran . |
| 9 | This would have brought Mr Bush into the case as his Vice-Presidential office was the first in Washington to be contacted from Central America when an aircraft was shot down by the Sandinistas . |
| 10 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
| 11 | Police claimed that they were forced to open fire when the crowd attacked them , whereas the ANC said that several of its supporters , grouped to defend themselves from a pro-Inkatha attack , had been shot down by the police . |
| 12 | IRAQ threatened yesterday to send fighters to patrol its border with Iran , but British and American officials said that would violate the terms of the Gulf war ceasefire and put the aircraft at risk of being shot down by the allies . |
| 13 | Two days earlier , acting on her own behalf and that of her children , the widow of Jean-Baptiste Lully , Madeleine Lambert , sold all the remaining books of Lully 's music to Jean Baptiste Christophe Ballard in accordance with a sentence handed down by the courts of Châtelet de Paris the previous day ( 16 July 1714 ) . |
| 14 | Meanwhile work on full employment policy had been handed down by the politicians to a committee of officials . |
| 15 | Top West End antiques dealer Arthur Davidson — son-in-law of the late showbiz millionaire Leslie Grade — had his business closed down by the receivers . |
| 16 | All radio stations were closed down by the mutineers ; several ministers , including the Prime Minister , were reported to have been arrested and others were seeking asylum in foreign embassies . |
| 17 | They 're the only people who can keep anything open out in the sand , and not be closed down by the gangcults . |
| 18 | Most take the experience with typical British humour and carrying on searching until either the dream home is found or they are worn down by the practicalities of price and location . |
| 19 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 20 | I can not understand how you , who appreciate so much Russian writers of the Nineteenth Century , can combine this appreciation with a complete ignorance of the obshchestvennoe dvizhenie ( liberal movement ) that started in the time of Alexander I , was conspicuously present throughout the century ( despite absolutism ) , and was deliberately played down by the Leninists and Trotskyists for propaganda reasons . |
| 21 | . Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced the Channel Tunnel has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers , and after that incident a few weeks ago , which was er certainly played down by the authorities , I wonder just how safe the Tunnel is . |
| 22 | The poll tax is quite rightly played down by the Tories , but what has this debacle cost the nation ? |
| 23 | After the initial successes of the Normandy landings , the Allied armies had been pinned down by the Germans . |
| 24 | It is important to realise that serious books of this kind , which form the backbone of the libraries and were first laid down by the Victorians , are most often those which are not taken out or ‘ issued ’ at all . |
| 25 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 26 | She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby . |
| 27 | The decisions of Margaret Thatcher 's ministers are struck down by the courts as often as were those of the Wilson or Callaghan administrations . |
| 28 | However , a very restrictive express term which tries to prevent an ex-employee making use of mundane skills will be likely to be struck down by the courts as being in restraint of trade . |
| 29 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 30 | Heavy-eyed , yawning and bewildered men appeared in doorways , and were promptly cut down by the attackers . |