Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] down for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rules were laid down for the management of schools , and the provision of finance by local authorities . |
| 3 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 4 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 5 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 6 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 7 | Press restrictions were imposed ( but quickly lifted ) and the weekly current affairs magazine Caretas was closed down for a time , commentators thereby inferring that the chief target of the coup was APRA . |
| 8 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 9 | And when we went then after Christmas the shop was closed down for the |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Luke says that , in her case , the offering was laid down for the poor : |
| 12 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 13 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 14 | Clearly suffering from the after-effects of a hip injury , she was knocked down for a koka — just three points — by the Soviet Elena Petrova , but it was enough to wipe out her hopes of a third consecutive world title . |
| 15 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 16 | Another £100.000 was put down for the National Union of Journalists , despite its clear and well-known policy of not investing in newspapers because of the inevitable conflict of interest in its role as champion of higher wages for journalists . |
| 17 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 18 | The Shell-owned Eider oil production platform , with 38 people on board , was shut down for a while . |
| 19 | On this occasion , everything was shut down for the night but in the morning when the armourers were about to start work , something went wrong . |