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The phrase "been broken down" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is the past participle form of the verb "break down" and is typically used to describe something that has been dismantled or separated into smaller parts. Example: The old car had been broken down for years, but with some repairs, it was finally able to run again.
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"Their resistance has been broken down".
In Rolle's view, the Giants have been broken down by plays that snowball with disastrous effects.
"It's been broken down twice by hurricanes and put together again".
"Their tribal structures have been broken down by the military campaign" and, in particular, "by the use of drones".
Abscess, a localized collection of pus in a cavity formed from tissues that have been broken down by infectious bacteria.
What perplexed them was that the chemical had not been broken down or weathered by long exposure to the environment.
If that had been broken down to us before, that would've changed a lot for us going into school".
Several etchings find the artist canoodling with his model while gazing upon a sculpture whose forms have been broken down in that identifiably fractured, Cubist way.
This may be because the proteins have been broken down by proteinases.
However, the linear relationship has been broken down because of the cross sensitivity about the circular birefringence and pressure.
If the cytoskeleton has been broken down, or "fluidized", as it is in cancer cells, then the cell stretches dramatically.
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