Sentence examples for construction down for from inspiring English sources

The road was blocked to large vehicles, shutting the construction down for a while.

When the New Jersey Department of Transportation started construction on upgrading the bypass, the fly-over ramp and on-ramp to and from Route 172 were torn down for construction of a new interchange along a new local/express format.

Ms. Varley flatly rejected Mr. Bruno's suggestion that the bus might have been slowing down for construction zones.

British Airways suffered four days of closure at Heathrow while construction firms effectively shut down for the whole period.

"What happened to all those people who came down for the construction boom?" Ms. Cohen said.

"At the moment we have this crazy approach where developers will sink say £100m developing an offshore windfarm and then, having gone through a five to 10-year process to get to point at which they're ready to do the construction – the government turns them down for a subsidy".

This is not the old story of poor blacks being pushed out of neighborhoods razed down for highway construction.

Nevertheless, my junior high self viewed the first cinematic beheading at a seemingly placid abandoned construction site and I was down for the count.

Let's return again to McWhorter's unsupported argument that "this is not the old story of poor blacks being pushed out of neighborhoods razed down for highway construction".

And indeed, in theory, one might concede that it is accessible, except that the elevator is in the middle of a construction project and has been shut down for several months.

Scrap steel is shipped to mills to be melted down for use in cars and construction beams, among other things.