Example sentences of "been [vb pp] down [prep] [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 inflated catalogue of works ascribed to him as a result of late nineteenth-century adulation has now been stripped down to basics . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This did not prevent subsequent British complaints that they had been let down by Washington . |
| 6 | Another charged that Lebanon 's Christians had been let down by President Franois Mitterrand . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 10 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 11 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Just as he could have received promotion over the years , but had always been turned down in favour of someone younger . |
| 17 | Relations between Georgia and Russia deteriorated sharply following Russian reports that a Russian Mi-8T helicopter had been shot down on Dec. 14 , on its way back from delivering humanitarian aid to the town of Tkvarcheli in the Abkhazia autonomous region . |
| 18 | The men , all of whom had been captured after having been shot down over enemy territory , gave their names , sent greetings to their families and made statements critical of the war . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It seems fairly certain that MacLachlan had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 21 | Suddenly he heard a clattering noise and his cockpit filled with smoke , the controls going dead — he had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had been shot down in September , 194O . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 25 | DEC had the prime position on the Show floor , a spot which has now been handed down to IBM . |
| 26 | Recollections have been handed down by word of mouth , of spindle spinning and early spinners in wool and flax , who lived at Adamthwaite . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |