Example sentences of "down [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill also lays down provision for detailed news coverage by both Channels 3 and 5 . |
| 2 | Despite prevailing economic gloom , the Salon also turned down requests from several US dealers wanting to take part . |
| 3 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 4 | You only have to see some of run down estates for the evidence . |
| 5 | When the final Sunday dawned , John , Nora , and Sarah went to the early service at St. Martin 's Church in Trafalgar Square and walked down Whitehall to the site , arriving just after eleven . |
| 6 | Grasshoppers three a-fiddling went , Alix hummed to herself , as she ran down Whitehall for the bus , swinging her shoulder bag in the cold , bright , showery , uncertain sun of late April . |
| 7 | ‘ Here 's some gentlemen who wo n't , ’ Nora said , pointing at a cab coming down Whitehall like a runaway . |
| 8 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 9 | THE clobbering of their portfolios by Tokyo 's tumbling stockmarket ( down 23% on the Nikkei index since January ) has made 1990 a terrible year for those Japanese companies that dabble in stocks as a way of boosting their business profits . |
| 10 | CompuAdd Computer Corp , Austin , Texas cut prices across its product line by as much as 23% : the EISA-based CompuAdd 466EDX2 tower unit now costs $3,800 , and the CompuAdd 433DX configured in a desktop power chassis is now $2,600 ; the CompuAdd 466DX2 configured in a desktop power chassis is down 23% at $3,000 . |
| 11 | Macland Inc saw fourth quarter net profits up 103.2% at $74,753 , on turnover down 36.7% at $2.9m ; net profit for the year to December 31 stood at $42,176 against losses of $55,738 last time , on turnover down 23% to $14.2m . |
| 12 | And drags down Mira to the nether World . |
| 13 | A slump in taxable profits left food distributor Booker down 19p at 420p . |
| 14 | Cable & Wireless closed down 19p at 850p , BT shares fell 6p to 421p , Vodafone dropped 19p to 491p , and Securicor , which owns 40% of Cellnet , slid 29p to 710p . |
| 15 | That could bring down thunder on corrupt lands |
| 16 | However , on the 11th , Mercury , planet of sociability and communication , turns backwards , slowing down progress in these areas . |
| 17 | Certainly the galleries where the slate is blasted , which go down 1,500ft in giant steps , have a dramatic quality of their own . |
| 18 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |
| 19 | Continue down field to stile and road . |
| 20 | In the six months to December turnover was down £3m to £38m with pre-tax profits £1.4m lower at £3.7m . |
| 21 | Breaking down activities into a number of small wins not only creates a rewarding climate for action but concentrates attention on the possible . |
| 22 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 23 | UNIONIST MPs rounded on Ulster Secretary Peter Brooke yesterday after he turned down calls for selective internment in the wake of the IRA bomb outrage at Musgrave Park Hospital . |
| 24 | A 26% profit setback hit Sims Food , down 16p at 205p . |
| 25 | It lays down definitions of what is a cultural object in terms of age and a value threshold . |
| 26 | Profits should rise from £2.09m to £2.5m in the year to May 1990 , rating the shares , down 1p to 242p yesterday , on a modest earnings multiple of around eight times . |
| 27 | FileNet Corp has reported first quarter net profits down 90% at $200,000 on turnover flat at $34.7m ; net earnings per share declined by 89% to $0.2 . |
| 28 | As striking for an impressionable child would have been the earth tremor on 27 March 829 which brought down houses in Aachen and damaged the roof of the palatine chapel . |
| 29 | Councillors voted to turn down plans for any cuts but still face the prospect of having to make reductions if the government chargecaps the council . |
| 30 | The ship 's engines ceased and the crew began throwing down ropes to a white man in a pith helmet who had emerged from one of the quayside offices . |