Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 2 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 3 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 4 | Dundee defender , Steve Pittman , latched on to a defensive error by John Inglis to race down the left flank . |
| 5 | A Feminist Dictionary , compiled by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler , is not just a nonsexist version of the standard dictionary , but an attempt to break down the monolithic authority of dictionaries in general . |
| 6 | And every parent has just been sent a letter — which claims ’ both Labour and the Liberal Demcrats have stated their intention to close down the remaining grammar schools . ’ |
| 7 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 8 | In particular , recourse to the quantity theory of money enabled the classical writers to pin down the absolute price level and this , together with a knowledge of the full-employment real wage rate , w * ; , made the money wage rate a determinate variable . |
| 9 | Toshack has taken pains to play down the hard-man image he brought from San Sebastian , swearing that the extra training ordered after the poor performance at Castellon was not a punishment . |
| 10 | He declined to take the Home Secretary 's advice to close down the Daily Herald , and declined also to allow Churchill to take over the BBC . |
| 11 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 12 | This , together with his recent decision to turn down the vacant Senate seat for Pennsylvania , led to speculation that there might be a hidden motive for his departure . |
| 13 | If only I had a crinoline to sweep down the grand staircase in ! |
| 14 | Helicopter pilots dumping sand and boric acid onto the reactor to damp down the nuclear reaction were unprotected until they slipped lead plates under their seats . |
| 15 | Apart from the problem of dealing with large numbers of frightened refugees , there was also an election coming up on 10 May , and the political factions in the town were anxious that nothing should interfere with it , so there was a concerted effort to play down the possible risk . |
| 16 | The tendency of historians to play down the general effect of the Combination Laws seems rather insensitive to the feeling of oppression widely found in these manufacturing districts . |
| 17 | This slack gives vitals seconds to get down the opposite flank before the load comes on the rope . |
| 18 | These apparent perversities of James 's syntax become meaningful in the light of an appraisal of his particular concern with psychological realism : his unremitting endeavour to pin down the psychological moment " in the full complexity of its circumambient conditions " . |
| 19 | Just the thing to bring down the evil empire . |
| 20 | However , a draft report by a secret ministerial advisory group reviewing ‘ persistent unemployment ’ suggests further measures to bring down the jobless tally could be in the pipeline . |
| 21 | Nursing staff at the famous Beeson Ward had hoped for a last minute reprieve , but the Health Authority stuck by its decision to close down the only ward in the country where nurses , not doctors , have the responsibility for admitting and discharging patients . |
| 22 | It is my contention that ‘ time ’ is now under the control of such an individual , who manipulates it in order to do down the working man . |
| 23 | Both Labour and the Conservatives ruled out a post-election pact with the Liberal Democrats , while Mr Ashdown appeared to soften his threat to vote down the legislative programme of a minority Government . |
| 24 | The following year Arthur Woods directed They Drive by Night ( 1938 ) , which makes evocative use of such ordinary English surroundings as a dance palace and the roadside cafés along the Great North Road for the story of an ex-convict hunted for a murder he did n't commit , who comes back to London to hunt down the real killer , a weirdo with books like Sex in Relation to Society and The Thrill of Evil in his briefcase . |
| 25 | MORE and more women are turning to expensive cosmetic surgery to slow down the ageing clock — but as our pictures show , it is n't always a cut above less drastic beauty remedies . |
| 26 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 27 | I joined a party to climb down the great west cliffs to the boulder scree of Carn Mør , where we stayed until darkness fell and listened to the calls of Manx shearwater , Leach 's and storm petrels as they came in from the ocean to feed their young , hidden deep under the boulders . |
| 28 | Mr Sillars accused the leadership of unravelling ten years of work by party activists — a reference to the SNP decision to vote with the Tories to bring down the Labour government in 1979 which led to the taunt ‘ Tartan Tories ’ . |