Example sentences of "have been [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evening string bands serenade diners in the scores of ‘ traditional ’ Mexican restaurants whose spicy hot menus have been toned down to suit the tourist palate . |
| 2 | Feelings of anger and bitterness towards another person , as well as guilt , which have been pushed down and never dealt with , may also cause depression . |
| 3 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 4 | But so far , the first two episodes have been bogged down with setting up the premise and too many location scenes . |
| 5 | Although the parliamentary campaign , backed by 350 MPs of all parties , originally asked for £100 million to help the victims , the demands have been scaled down . |
| 6 | Those who wanted more than 500 have been scaled down , as the table illustrates . |
| 7 | Yeah , but ne , you know , nuclear weapons and so forth , surely those have been scaled down . |
| 8 | Over the years , a good many bouncers have been sent down and several batsmen have been injured , especially around the head ; this is because , unlike most of his colleagues , his bouncers usually go through at head height rather than above it and so are particularly awkward . |
| 9 | Since then some 4 million hectares have been cut down and millions more have been destroyed by accidental forest fires . |
| 10 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 11 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 12 | Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain . |
| 13 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 14 | The gamble has paid off , so tourists and faithful can now contemplate a moving image of the tormented body of the dead Christ in a remarkable state of conservation except for the loss of the skin colour pigments , which have been abraded down to the greenish underpainting . |
| 15 | The early stages of the Reformation movement in Scotland have been played down , compared to the sudden rush to success of the Protestant party in 1559–6 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Larger particles can not pass through until they have been chewed down to size . |
| 18 | What a pass we have come to when state pensions have been screwed down so far . |
| 19 | People like myself and the footballers and athletes , we 're black and have been pressed down . |
| 20 | While certain contests I could mention ( clue : begins with ‘ W ’ and ends with ‘ inter Olympics ’ ) have been thrust down our throats , only a few poor unfortunates hooked into Mr Murdoch 's communications system will suffer 24-hour-a-day cricket coverage , and such people should not concern us here . |
| 21 | The state markets where food could be bought off ration have been shut down . |
| 22 | It involves drastic measures to cut the use of energy and materials : 750,000 Chinese bicycles are on order , factories have been shut down . |
| 23 | Now various versions of Unix have been boiled down to two : one from the Open Systems Foundation , a consortium that includes IBM , Hewlett Packard and DEC , and one from Unix International , a consortium involving AT&T and Sun Microsystems . |
| 24 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 25 | The trees that once sheltered the man of the forest have been chopped down and sold to shelter the man of the city in Tokyo and Nagasaki . |
| 26 | So all the O threes have been chopped down and you get O twos forming . |
| 27 | The project we 're hoping to sponsor , there 's now Friends of the Earth in Ghana , erm who 've Doctor Plumtree quite rightly said , Ghana are working hard on re-forestation schemes , and a scheme that Friends of the Earth is doing is a community re- forestation scheme , because a lot of the re-forestation schemes are from the top down , and they do n't actually get the villagers involved in whatever , so we 'll actually be funding community reforestation schemes , several species of trees , particularly those which help to regenerate the soil , especially if it 's been degraded because the trees have been chopped down , or what-have-you . |
| 28 | Most British governments have been worn down by failures ( particularly economic ) , scandals , lack of purpose , and electoral boredom . |
| 29 | Twitch bites have always been a problem , and the best answers have been to scale down tackle and bait to encourage a better bite , or to hover over the rod and attempt to strike and hit the twitch bite . |
| 30 | Not only can you find out the results of addition quickly after all the figures have been written down , you can also predict the results of adding together three rows of figures after only one has been written down . |