Example sentences of "down [prep] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can always red circle that salary at a later date and hold her increases down against other people . |
| 2 | Within about ten days she was happy enough with my mother and sisters around , but it took her a lot longer to settle down with other people , and with animals . |
| 3 | Geological finds and things well , erm very often some of You 'll find that some of the isotopes are radioactive and they break down into other things . |
| 4 | Straw : Some is already converted as farmyard manure ; and attempts have been made to break it down in other ways to make a compost base . |
| 5 | You may decide to ponder on why sometimes you are the centre of attention and why at others you are an outsider , or how alliances are formed , or why a group works well in one situation and becomes bogged down in other circumstances ' ? |
| 6 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 7 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 8 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 9 | Or is the situation down to other factors ? |
| 10 | → Just to set your mind at rest , Phil , I 'll start by telling you that there is nothing wrong with your equipment ; the situation is definitely down to other factors . |
| 11 | Now in the inside of that it opens out , there 's an opening in the bone and that leads down among other things into a tube down here , now that is connected up further down to the sinuses across |
| 12 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 13 | There was a danger that the anti-inflation tendencies of the Bundesbank would be watered down by other European countries where control of prices was less of a priority . |
| 14 | There was a danger that the anti-inflation tendencies of the Bundesbank would be watered down by other European countries where control of prices was less of a priority . |
| 15 | After all , at this end of the market where incomes are low and where applicants for credit may well have been turned down by other types of lender , lenders may feel that they have to discriminate particularly carefully to be sure of recovering their money . |
| 16 | The Basquiat show was turned down by other major US museums , although attendance at the Whitney rose 20% while the exhibition was up . |
| 17 | The population of aphids is normally kept down by other animals that feed on them . |
| 18 | Outside the building there were skirmishes among several thousand protesters when a minority attempted to protect the East German flag , which was hauled down by other demonstrators and replaced with the hammer and compass emblem cut out . |
| 19 | Or they could be put down by other people . |