Example sentences of "[noun] are [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the skills are passed down through the family . |
| 2 | Right after the ground rules are laid down by the station when you go in they say , ‘ What is your title ? ’ and if I 'm interviewed on behalf of the branch P R O I say that , if I 'm an officer of Broadham District Council I say that , so the ground rules are there as to who you 're speaking for when the interview starts . |
| 3 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 4 | Each line of script represents one second of running time and the words are written down at the normal speaking rate of three per second . |
| 5 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 6 | In order to achieve this , almost seven million egg cell precursors are laid down in the female fetus . |
| 7 | The growth characteristics of the bones are laid down at the time when the pattern is specified and the elements are very small and this early specification will control growth for many years ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 8 | But they , the Conservatives are cutting down on the health service and everything else and the schools |
| 9 | Even when trap lines are laid down along the hunting paths of a relatively specialized predator like the barn owl , there may be considerable differences in species proportions represented in the two assemblages . |
| 10 | These bands are laid down in the state budget , and a committee of ministerial under-secretaries vets nationalized industries ' collective agreements to make sure that they conform to pay limits . |
| 11 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 12 | Even in the western Ukraine , far away from Chernobyl , headaches and sleeping troubles are put down to the disaster . |
| 13 | Eggs are laid down in the autumn and a good digestible protein-rich diet , such as earthworms , should be fed at this time in order to encourage early spawning . |
| 14 | In fact , various conditions are laid down in the section itself ; in particular that the nature of the document must be made clear , and that it must contain a statement by the company 's auditors of their opinion on whether the statement is consistent with the accounts and reports and complies with the section and the regulations . |
| 15 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 16 | Your minimum notice rights are laid down by the Consolidation Act , which in this respect covers almost all UK-based executives , although some classes of employee , including some part-timers , are excluded . |
| 17 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 18 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 19 | All the normal operating procedures and the emergency operating procedures are written down in the flight manual of an aircraft , one copy of which is carried in the aircraft while another is always available ( to accident investigators , amongst others ) on the ground , and pilots are trained and required to operate their aircraft in conformity with these procedures . |
| 20 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 21 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 22 | Bright children are dragged down to the lowest common denominator . ’ |
| 23 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 24 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 25 | In assessment of the suitability of a deposit for supplying specific coarse concrete aggregates or finer mortar sands , very precise requirements are laid down by the construction industry . |
| 26 | Sometimes , under peak-loading conditions , the pressure in the line is insufficient to replenish the tank , and , if pumps are shut down at the end of the day , the tank may be left only partly full . |
| 27 | The decisions of Margaret Thatcher 's ministers are struck down by the courts as often as were those of the Wilson or Callaghan administrations . |
| 28 | All the principal details of the scheme are laid down in the foregoing or in the drawings . |
| 29 | Medium and long leys are put down with the object of increasing grassland production , extending the growing season and improving the nutritional quality of the herbage . |
| 30 | Their eye-sockets have no bony floor , so when they blink , the eye-balls are drawn down into the skull and make a bulge in the roof of the mouth which squeezes the lump of food to the back of the throat . |