Example sentences of "[vb past] down [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , how we got down alive I 'll never know |
| 2 | Now even this annoyed her , the way her father toned down some of the roughness of his idiom , her mother increased the Holywood Hampstead in her voice . |
| 3 | For the Roman catholic social teaching of the day laid down certain things as of natural law which anyone who was reasonable and honest was supposed to be able to recognize . |
| 4 | He also laid down certain rules fur balance , on the need to bend the knees always as a preparation for any kind of step followed by a stretch , on the vital use of the head and on the need fur the co-ordination of all parts if the desired movements were to be precise and elegant . |
| 5 | Saint-Léon laid down certain rules for the staging of character dance based on the traditional folk dance of a particular country . |
| 6 | To counter this aggression the United States laid down certain rules and conditions which the Japanese blatantly ignored . |
| 7 | ‘ Jesus laid down moral standards , such as in the Sermon on the Mount . |
| 8 | The government laid down extensive amendments at both the Committee and Third Reading stages of the Bill , such that one MP considered that there had been a ‘ complete rewriting of the whole Bill ’ and another that it ‘ has become virtually a Government Bill ’ |
| 9 | The later programmes laid down clearer guidelines about the objectives and role of Urban Programme funding than was always apparent in the later 1970s . |
| 10 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 11 | The right to mine Oakenhill was bought in the early '80s by the Free Miners , who still exercise their mining privileges in the Forest under laws laid down 7 centuries ago . |
| 12 | In the Nutricia case the court laid down various guidelines . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was this legal background which encouraged Howard to enter into a formal agreement with Henrietta which laid down that ‘ to prevent altercations about those little matters which he had observed to be the chief grounds of uneasiness in families — he should always decide ’ . |
| 14 | For example , the first constitution of independent India in 1947 laid down that foreign ownership should be limited to less than half in oil , and in certain other restricted sectors . |
| 15 | Lennox-Boyd then laid down that independence would only be granted if wanted by ‘ a substantial majority of the people ’ ; if Bourne 's proposals were accepted by NLM as well as CPP then they could go ahead : ‘ If he failed then there appeared to be no alternative but to call a general election ’ ( p.245 ) . |
| 16 | Back in 1952 the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe , laid down specific guidelines to the Director-General of MI5 as to how it should operate in the future . |
| 17 | This laid down specific objectives for each party in A Squadron in three phases , specifying that the squadron would come under the command of the Eighth Army on 16 October . |
| 18 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 19 | The Factory Act of 1901 laid down enforceable standards of space , cleanliness and sanitation in workplaces , and of methods of payment . |
| 20 | Then when it was thrashed I had a straw bed laid down nice and thick on the barn floor . |
| 21 | On the one hand there was the central government and its economic ( and taxation ( plans which laid down broad policy and investment strategy ; on the other hand was the ‘ club ’ of often just two traditional suppliers of equipment . |
| 22 | As approved by the conference , the 27-page Declaration laid down broad principles of environmentally-sound development , but was generally viewed as a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise between the widely differing wishes of various states . |
| 23 | There Philip and Richard laid down three conditions upon which they were prepared to make peace . |
| 24 | At a meeting with Communist leaders on I1 December 1934 , Fenner Brockway laid down three conditions for continued co-operation : ( a ) Neither Party was to interfere in the internal affairs of the other ( b ) The Communist Party should state clearly whether it would oppose Labour Party or ILP candidates at elections ( c ) There should be no attempt to unify the ILP and the Communist Party into a single organisation until the next Annual Conference had discussed the matter . |
| 25 | Indeed , it was not until 1940 that under the demands of world conflict and with cost almost no object , the War Agricultural Committees laid down thousands of miles of concrete roads along the droveways throughout the fens . |
| 26 | It is thus apparent , as has been indicated elsewhere , that not all of the earthworks are contemporary with one another ; indeed , the basic outline of the settlement seems to have been determined by land divisions laid down several thousand years previously . |
| 27 | For almost every railway line built by the different railway companies — permission for which was passed by the House in different eras — we laid down different procedures . |
| 28 | Susie Terhune 's crew laid down some heavy fire . |
| 29 | [ I ] t seems to me much more likely that Lord Hardwicke LC adopted [ the construction argued for by Mackenzie ] than that he laid down some new constitutional principle that the court had the power to give relief against the provision of a statute . |
| 30 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |