Example sentences of "down in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will not however go down in financial history as a great achiever , and it has to be said ( as recorded later in these pages ) that even under his leadership labour relations were far from perfect . |
| 2 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 3 | But it has kept its head down in recent years because of a huge $4 billion corporate debt and a slide in sales . |
| 4 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |
| 5 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 6 | As a result Farnborough took over from Andover as the place to skate so Andover closed down in late 1982/early 1983 . |
| 7 | The Ford car plant had been shut down in late July after striking metalworkers ransacked the plant . |
| 8 | ( You 'll need to jot things down in rough first , before you enter totals on the slip . ) |
| 9 | Cohesion through antonymy ( " oppositeness ' ) is also created in the text through the juxtaposition of the verb phrases 'stand up " and 'sitting down in adjacent sentences ( h ) and ( b ) . |
| 10 | Once the crab had been shown by J. V. Thompson in his Zoological Researches ( 1828–34 ) to begin life as a little shrimp-like creature , and the barnacle perhaps more surprisingly to do the same before settling down in middle age , then the unity of plan in the group became more evident . |
| 11 | Over 100 homes of Aristide supporters were burnt down in rural areas . |
| 12 | First violin Michael Thomas explains in the liner notes that in the early seventies they would often let their hair down in private , arranging and playing pieces from Joplin to the Beatles and Brubeck purely for fun . |
| 13 | With a white , set face , she left the office and went straight to the ladies ' powder-room , breaking down in private and crying silent , bitter tears . |
| 14 | It would not be sensible for anyone other than staff with specific responsibilities in this area to get weighed down in mechanical details such as costing the specific details of any aspect of the school 's plans . |
| 15 | Over backing tracks that sound like Nirvana with a brass section produced by the Bomb Squad , rappers Mercury and Alkaline throw down in distinctive London fashion , incorporating ragga chat into the quickfire rhyme brew . |
| 16 | Any use of nuclear weapons which resulted in significant fall-out coming down in neutral countries , or which in other ways violated neutral territory , would clearly fall foul of this provision . |
| 17 | Even if the plants die down in mid winter , they will sprout again in spring earlier than if they were planted outdoors . |
| 18 | During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions . |
| 19 | ‘ If ships go down in shallow water , ’ adds Michael Cohen , ‘ cargoes are damaged by the tides . |
| 20 | Our understanding of the vertical ( as opposed to the horizontal ) movements of the lithosphere during continental rupture is largely derived from the interpretation of the sediments laid down in passive margin basins . |
| 21 | CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms . |
| 22 | They perpetuate the great romances and adventure stories of the Middle Ages , setting down in simple and unadorned sentences the songs and tales formerly carried by minstrel and troubadour ; tales of the Seven Champions of Christendom , the great Bevis of Southampton ( twice quoted above ) , with his steed Arundel and his invincible sword Morglay , Arthur and his company of the Round Table . |
| 23 | The existence of a firm strategy for continuing education may , in theory , preclude the need for re-entry programmes as they exist at present , and it is the job of the members of each National Board to align continuing education needs with the UKCC 's own policies regarding the maintenance and improvement of professional standards as laid down in current legislation . |
| 24 | That constancy of composition relationship breaks down in enclosed seas and bays for example where er addition processes , I E er salts which have been eroded from river water , may alter the composition . |
| 25 | By then , the rain had really started coming down in bucketsful . |
| 26 | In fact it looked as if the trees had been cut down in early Victorian times . |
| 27 | ALMOST every sector was marked down in early dealing as sellers dominated the market . |
| 28 | Shares hit : Wall Street 's 21-point fall sent the FTSE down in early trading . |
| 29 | Above us , a massive chandelier in sugar-doll pink cascades down in frilly waves . |
| 30 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |