"it was broken down" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that had been destroyed or dismantled. For example: "When we arrived at the old mill, it was broken down."
"It was very exciting for our family," Mindlin recalled, "because it meant that she was one of those kids whose bodies didn't recognize the milk protein when it was broken down in baking, so now she had potential to eat baked foods".
Whenever they moved him, it was broken down and moved with him.
With the arrival of cellphones, "it was broken down to a series of individual conversations," he said.
Normally, the scale prohibits people from understanding, but it was broken down into parts and sets of behavior that regular people could understand".
The Midland Harvest Taco Filling 'n Dip mix had a similar texture, though it was broken down into brown pellets, resembling ground meat.
A survey devised by Mr. Segal with researchers from both sides found that neither Israelis nor Palestinians viewed the borders of the city as sacrosanct when it was broken down neighborhood by neighborhood.
These were people with a sense of shared cultural history who were doing everything the could to hang onto it even as it was breaking down.
"It's broken down so many stereotypes," said DeLaria.
"Actually, when you see how it's broken down, the actual fare was like $350 and the rest was all taxes, fees and surcharges".
Even if it is broken down from a messy whole into several slightly more coherent phases, it was usually inconsistent, often unstable and to varying degrees improvised.
