Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many Latin American countries teachers lack the freedom to devise and organise their own teaching plans , Peru being one of the few exceptions ( and even here there is a general curriculum laid down by the ministry ) . |
| 2 | Teaching in schools must follow the lines of a national curriculum laid down by the Secretary of State which will dominate approximately 90 per cent of school timetables . |
| 3 | By nine that morning they were parked on a side-street off Tottenham Court Road , Bodie at the wheel of the Capri , Doyle slouched down in the passenger seat , idly , almost cursorily , watching the heavy flow of traffic up towards Warren Street . |
| 4 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 5 | You will be taught about hazards both in the classroom and on the wards and should always adhere to procedures and policies laid down for the safety of patients and yourself . |
| 6 | The district council claim that unauthorised use of the farm shop for the sale of goods not produced within the farm holding is not a use ancillary to agricultural use , and is contrary to policies laid down by the district local plan . |
| 7 | Essentially , it had a directing and supervisory role , ensuring that the policies laid down by the Politburo were known and vigorously pursued at all levels . |
| 8 | Blair crept down to the bank whilst I rehearsed various reasons to explain why he had not caught the trout : lack of experience , bad casting technique . |
| 9 | ( WES ) Almost all the club 's riders have refused to agree to new pay scales laid down by the sport 's governing body . |
| 10 | The Commission made a provisional determination that the plaintiffs had failed to establish a claim according to the rules laid down under the statute . |
| 11 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 12 | Claims brought in respect of loss of cargo will be governed by the rules laid down in the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 , the Hague-Visby Rules . |
| 13 | Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity . |
| 14 | Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention . |
| 15 | But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself . |
| 16 | True , the police do at times breach the rules laid down by the law . |
| 17 | If he does cause a byelection , he will face the charge that he is not prepared to play by the rules laid down by the party conference . |
| 18 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 19 | The bulk of LIFFE 's trade is conducted by " open outcry " in pits , each of which is specific to a particular type of instrument which is traded in it only during the recognised hours laid down by the Exchange . |
| 20 | They accepted that employment upon the terms as to remuneration laid down in the scale of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors whereby they would receive 10 per cent of one year 's rent defined as ‘ the rent reserved by letting ’ plus any additional service charge . |
| 21 | He further contends by ground ( 2 ) of his notice of appeal that the failure of the judge to perceive the limitations imposed on her discretion in the context of the Convention led her to reject the proposition that the elements necessary to the exercise of that discretion have to exist within the framework laid down by the Convention itself . |
| 22 | A boom was now built across the River Foyle which connected it , via Lough Foyle , with the open sea , and the 30,000 citizens began a long ordeal by privation and disease , in which many thousands died , while enemy bombs plunged down upon the town . |
| 23 | A short flight of stone steps led down to the entrance . |
| 24 | If the interpretation of the point is not given to the ordinary courts then the error will not be an error of law at all ; the criterion laid down by the tribunal will be the accepted standard . |
| 25 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 26 | The dark , lazy appraisal moved down over the jut of her breasts beneath the soft material , and she shivered involuntarily , despite the warm night . |
| 27 | His eyes flickered down to the gondola . |
| 28 | The reporter 's eyes flickered down to the floor . |
| 29 | Hari sank down on the bench beside him . |
| 30 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |