Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their spokesman said that the men were prepared to close down the generating plant immediately , but it would mean that the grid would go and that factories and hospitals would be without power for an indefinite time . |
| 2 | But these days it 's hard to track down the old equipment . |
| 3 | Armed with this information , the genealogist should be able to track down the relevant baptism entry in a parish or nonconformist register in the years before civil registration began . |
| 4 | Although you may not be able to track down the precise cause under such circumstances , it can be possible to devise a means of overcoming the problem in most cases of this type . |
| 5 | Although the underlying reasons are not fully understood , it does appear that certain female sex hormones are able to damp down the dominant urge . |
| 6 | You end up er collapsed , taking deep breaths , and what that is trying to do is that the deep breaths are circulating oxygen into the body , the oxygen is then able to break down the lactic acid into other substances which are less harmful . |
| 7 | If you 're knitting a wide piece of knitting and changing the yarn less than every two rows , it 's advisable to lay down the driving lever . |
| 8 | To catch the offending shrimp , it is often necessary to strip down the entire tank , rock by rock , until it is found . |
| 9 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |
| 10 | Spokesman David Williams is , however , anxious to play down the Red Menace theory . |
| 11 | More urgent was the need to find out why Piper had felt it necessary to shut down the neural net like this . |
| 12 | In hot weather some form of shading is necessary to keep down the internal temperature , as well as to shield plants from direct sunlight . |
| 13 | As we have said , it 's not always possible to pin down the exact reason for Cystitis attacks , or why some women suffer so repeatedly . |
| 14 | If the Minister is saying that the proposal is liable to bog down the entire system and cause administrative chaos , he may be right as regards some of the effects . |