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1. Pull it down.
2. They decided to pull down the old building.
3. From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats, raises a storm of angry protest.
4. During agricultural research when the aim of the research requires that the animals are kept under similar conditions to those under which commercial farm animals are kept, the keeping of the animals should at least follow the standards laid down in Directive 98/58/EC and in the specific Directive for the protection of laying hens (Council Directive 1999/74/EC) as well as in the Recommendations adopted under the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes (ETS No 87).Many of the potential welfare problems specific to birds are associated with inappropriate pecking behaviour. This can be divided into aggressive pecking; feather pecking (where individuals either peck at other birds' feathers or pluck and pull at their own); and pecking at the skin of other birds, which can cause serious suffering and mortality if unchecked.