Example sentences of "[noun] bring down " in BNC.
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| 1 | A familiar sound in the Amazonian rainforest as the loggers bring down another mahogany tree . |
| 2 | Christopher Hill has emphasised how Milton explicitly has Samson bring down the temple on ‘ Lords , ladies , captains , counsellors , or priests , /Their choice nobility and flower ’ ( 11.1653–4 ) allowing the vulgar [ i.e. the common people ] ‘ who stood without ’ to escape . |
| 3 | Customers tend to use the product either as a report generator for existing , often highly complex databases brought down from the mainframe , or as a tool for the complete re-engineering of their applications , including prototyping . |
| 4 | More than 18,000 consumers were left without electricity when snow brought down live cables . |
| 5 | More than 18,000 people were left without electricity when snow brought down live cables in parts of Weardale , Bishop Auckland and Stanley . |
| 6 | This meant that the District Officers ' opposition to the proposals of wildlife conservationists who wanted Masai land was just as uncompromising as their opposition to settlers ; and , then as now , the appearance of indifference to the interests of picturesque and harmless animals brought down odium on the heads of those presumed guilty of it . |
| 7 | Munich had inspired a last-ditch attempt to bring down Chamberlain and save the peace . |
| 8 | Welcome back : One of the world 's leading classical violinists is backing a local record company in an attempt to bring down the price of compact discs . |
| 9 | ‘ Given the depressed state of the UK market , it was absolutely essential that we took this painful action to bring down our break-even point and thereby tailor our company to its potential markets . ’ |
| 10 | To add to this demoralising sense of isolation , the tenacious curtain of smoke from the bombardment meant that the front line frequently could not see the supporting troops behind ; nor , worse still , could their rockets of supplication asking for the artillery to bring down a barrage , or cease shelling their own positions , be seen at the rear . |
| 11 | I 'm just going to park the car well away from the house , just in case this wind brings down any of the roof . ’ |
| 12 | It detonated with enough force to bring down huge chunks of rock from the ceiling . |
| 13 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
| 14 | GOD 'S PROMISES ON THE BRINK and a hero brought down to earth with a bump |
| 15 | After Peniel , when for a night Jacob also , so unheroic hitherto , played a hero 's part , we are given more subtle comedy and another hero brought down to earth . |
| 16 | Berkshire 's outlet was Reading , situated on the Kennet just above its confluence with the Thames , and on the way to becoming a major river-port , forwarding malt and meal to London , to which Great Marlow shipped Chiltern corn brought down from High Wycombe . |
| 17 | The High Commissioner 's Residency was flooded , his collection of pandanus mats sodden , his power lines brought down by falling trees . |
| 18 | Timber was carted up , a tough job for any horse , and ore brought down to the Paddy End Mill in the same manner . |
| 19 | At the river mouths are stones and huge boulders brought down when the rivers are in flood , although most of the year there is so little water in the rivers that it is hard to imagine . |
| 20 | We know , for example , that for much of that period , places such as the lower Ouse Valley and the lower Arran and Ada Valleys were in fact flooded arms of the sea and that the sediment brought down by the rivers of Sussex from inland , along with deposition by the sea in the quiet waters within those estuary-type areas , has gradually in-filled them . |
| 21 | The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 per cent to a target of 13 per cent . |
| 22 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 23 | I decided to try the Power Tool in two ways : the first using a stack , with the amp set to full shred ; the second with a Vox AC30 on full tilt , but with the Power Tool bringing down the volume to bedroom level . |
| 24 | Is it serious enough to bring down John Major in the way the Poll Tax brought down Margaret Thatcher ? |
| 25 | He had Lucia 's father 's body brought down a fiendish spiral staircase to centre stage — the singer was convinced that his bearers would drop him , so Menotti 's secretary had to play the corpse — and the opera closed in a graveyard cloaked in drifting snow . |
| 26 | Urgent repair work is being carried out at Pickering 's 19th century memorial hall after heavy rain brought down part of the ceiling . |
| 27 | They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later . |
| 28 | The treaty was eventually ratified but the crisis brought down the Kishi government and produced the most widespread political protests of the postwar years . |
| 29 | The sudden sound brought down the children and Hugh , who looked nervously at the Borzoi . |
| 30 | That unrest brought down the government of Prime Minister V P Singh . |