Example sentences of "been [vb pp] down by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 2 | The charge sheet cited " organizational motive " as the prime cause for Gandhi 's murder , together with a belief that the Tamil cause had been let down by India . |
| 3 | This did not prevent subsequent British complaints that they had been let down by Washington . |
| 4 | Another charged that Lebanon 's Christians had been let down by President Franois Mitterrand . |
| 5 | During the First World War , Radek of the Polish party and the Left abstained on national questions ; ‘ Social Democracy does not advocate either an erection of new boundary posts in Europe nor the re-erection of those which have been torn down by imperialism ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The developer is seeking the release for housing of a one field width strip parallel to the Glebe Road which had previously been turned down by planners . |
| 7 | On July 13 the Home Affairs Minister , S. B. Chavan , who had visited Ayodhya the previous day , told the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) that the central government 's offer to provide additional security to ensure that the disputed land was not encroached upon had been turned down by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh . |
| 8 | The show 's organisers had approached more well-known institutions and had been turned down by Los Angeles MOCA , the Art Institute of Chicago , the Monterrey Museum in Mexico ( which had used a Basquiat work as the cover for its inaugural catalogue ) , and by the Pompidou Centre in Paris . |
| 9 | ah , it was alright , er , it was a bit , David did a good performance , erm , and there was this boy in the first year , and he was apparently been turned down by Lambda Do you know who Lambda are , I do n't even know who they are . |
| 10 | Walter Preis 's aircraft ( J9 +JK ) and that of Lt. Leopold Jarosch ( J9+BH ) had been shot down by fighters , while one Ju87R ( J9+YL ) of 9/St.G 1 flown by Stfw . |
| 11 | It seems fairly certain that MacLachlan had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 12 | Suddenly he heard a clattering noise and his cockpit filled with smoke , the controls going dead — he had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 13 | The pilot survived the crash , but further investigation found that a month later he had been shot down by enemy fighters 12 miles off Etaples , Northern France , again flying a Tomahawk . |
| 14 | Recollections have been handed down by word of mouth , of spindle spinning and early spinners in wool and flax , who lived at Adamthwaite . |
| 15 | Payton had been hauled down by Penney , so justice was seen to be done when he hit Mohan 's free-kick past Veysey . |
| 16 | Six small unions in Gaza had been closed down by Israel in 1967 , and only allowed to re-open in 1979 , on condition they neither held fresh elections nor recruited new members . |
| 17 | However , this line of challenge has been closed down by Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 , which allows challenges only if the expert has asked himself the wrong question , including a question of law . |
| 18 | Most British governments have been worn down by failures ( particularly economic ) , scandals , lack of purpose , and electoral boredom . |
| 19 | The CCDP argues that the known side-effects of the drug , medroxyprogesterone , have been played down by Upjohn and the medical experts it has called . |
| 20 | The regulator , whose task has been laid down by Parliament , is perfectly entitled to come to me if he thinks that his powers are not enough . |
| 21 | But before the idea is condemned out of hand , let us remember that the price of petrol has just been brought down by 18p a gallon . |
| 22 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 23 | Has she been struck down by heaven , do you think ? ’ |
| 24 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 25 | ‘ This was to prepare us should we come across animals that had been knocked down by cars . |
| 26 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |
| 27 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 28 | Or perhaps another of the cai living quarters had again been burned down by coolies in one of the other villages ? |
| 29 | The Amnesty report , issued on Sept. 6 , claimed that " hundreds of children in Brazil 's cities have been gunned down by death squads and many more have been beaten and tortured by on-duty police " . |