Example sentences of "been [verb] down from [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
2 | The self-destructive streak in Scottish football is a legacy that has been handed down from Hughie Gallacher in the '20s to Mo Johnston in the present day , but it finds its most bloated expression in Slim Jim , a player whose massive reputation was built on his slender athletic frame but whose downfall has been a rake 's progress of late nights , seedy bars and relentless beer bellies . |
3 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
4 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
5 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
6 | It 's not tablets of stone which have been brought down from Mount Sinai forever to remain unalterable . |
7 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
8 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
9 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
10 | By the end of March about 40 tons of ore lay on the bank , having been carted down from Paddy End , and was ready for dressing . |