Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To reach the sea below guests can take the lift , footpath and flight of 177 steps down to a small private beach . |
| 2 | They appointed their own French administrators down to the lowest levels , leaving the Annamese powerless and humiliated in their own land . |
| 3 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 4 | He knew how to create extraordinary visual effects simply by changing the direction of his brush stroke , so that light streams down from an unseen sun , or a horizon line is conjured up out of three horizontal bands of subtly modulated shades of blue . |
| 5 | Therefore , for 600 rpm , the attitude change would be 3 half-bars , that is a change of one and a half bars down from the existing attitude . |
| 6 | At 3600 m on Mount Erebus , Ross Island , where no surface vegetation was apparent , Janetschek ( 1963 ) recorded bacteria , blue-green algae and microfungi a few centimetres down in the volcanically-warmed soil . |
| 7 | One phone call to other parents will bind you together — and give you the parent power to put all your combined feet down with a loud stamp . |
| 8 | Having completed the very demanding annual Personal Weapons Test , each section member was required to run up a plank of wood to a window-frame , shoot at a target on the other side of the window , and then throw himself six feet down into a simulated building interior . |
| 9 | There is a big bundle of feathers called the incubator bird which lays its eggs six feet down in the hot black sand , and whose offspring emerge huge and fully feathered against the heat . |
| 10 | These specialised workers , known to entomologists as repletes , never leave the nest but inhabit galleries six feet down in the red earth . |
| 11 | Wherever she went she carried her bag with her personal belongings down to every last rag . |
| 12 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
| 13 | Marovitz and the Jeanetta Cochrane were early tenants down in the lower depths . |
| 14 | The eternal order which reflected the unchanging nature of God , and which found expression in the manner of God 's Redemption of the world , was also expressed in the traditions of individual churches down to the smallest details . |
| 15 | The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed . |
| 16 | He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic , just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist . |
| 17 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 18 | Sweat broke out on his face and ran in little rivulets down into the blue stubble . |
| 19 | He used to bring these tubs down into a long turnout . |
| 20 | Mary smiled as she negotiated the three awkward steps down to the sunken floor of the huge kitchen . |
| 21 | They put all environmental problems down to the wicked industrialists , notwithstanding the fact that much of the pollution comes from eastern Europe . |
| 22 | Slicing already inadequate budgets down to the lowest possible level would reduce care managers ' ability to respond flexibly to user need at the very point at which they were supposed to be maximising choice . |
| 23 | The flight was only about ten steps down to the next landing , and though he felt bruised all over , and shocked , nothing seemed to be broken . |
| 24 | Such round , smooth shapes are the perfect foil to the railway sleepers that are used as informal steps down to the lowest level of all , a curved brick paved sitting area that looks back up towards the house . |
| 25 | The advantages to the Commission of programme financing arose from the long-term nature of such a plan for regional development , which required agreement on financing arrangements in advance from all the concerned parties down to the local government level . |
| 26 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 27 | That war was justified where self-defence demanded violent measures few of the fathers had denied ; but the consistent effort of responsible churchmen down to the tenth century was to curb the warlike proclivities of the military classes , and , as time passed , to threaten ever direr penalties on those engaged in unholy war . |
| 28 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 29 | Each eye is about a centimetre across and is packed with up to 4 million light receptors , lit through an opening which can be varied from 3 millimetres down to a tiny 0.4 millimetres . |
| 30 | There are literally thousands of Latin words occurring in texts of interest to the local historian — and these may date from the sixth or seventh centuries down to the seventeenth . |