The phrase "a shut down of" is not correct in standard written English; it should be "a shutdown of." You can use it when referring to the cessation of operations or activities, typically in a technical or organizational context.
Example: "The company announced a shutdown of its manufacturing plant due to maintenance issues."
Alternatives: "a closure of" or "a cessation of".
Leon Charney, another real estate titan, fears "a shut down of lending by banks" may continue to hobble the economy.
A shut down of Yahoo's Open Graph access could have been disastrous for the former portal's many news properties.
Earlier on Wednesday, Bangladesh announced a shut down of 18 garment factories for safety reasons, amid growing concerns over the issue of industrial safety across the country.
Instagram wasn't aware that the racist GIF was available in its GIPHY integration until informed by TechCrunch, leading to a shut down of the feature within an hour.
Linden Lab's Second Life has seen its fair share of controversies in the past; an FBI investigation led to a shut down of inworld casinos, some media reports suggested that Second Life may be being used as a training area for terrorists, and in July there was suggestion that Bestiality may be driven out of the metaverse by a crackdown under a new TOS that banned "Broadly Offensive" behaviour.
St. Croix said the emotion on the Facebook page was running high, with some people even suggesting a shut down of Highway 63.
Nevertheless, the closure of the forum hasn't meant a shutting down of debate – if anything it's been quite the opposite.
Depression is rather a shutting down of the emotive self, a fracturing of the will.
This act has been represented not only as vandalism but as a shutting down of free speech--one that has been condemned by the administration and news organs.
As this process occurs in adrenal gland mitochondria as a circadian cycle, an ACTH-activated cytochrome P450 produces H2O2 as a byproduct of making corticosteroids, and the inactivation of PrxIII allows peroxide to build up sufficiently to lead to p38 activation and a shutting down of the synthesis of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein.
Therefore, formation of the bulgy shape in tadpoles may require alteration of the water permeability (i.e., a shutting down of water permeability) of the superficial epidermis of the skin, which might be achieved by expression of pirica (Mori et al., 2009).
