Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They therefore do not lay down requirements for length of time spent in training , number of years experience within the industry , the type of training that must be undertaken , and so on . |
| 2 | I 'll just put down voucher for compensation case to be investigated |
| 3 | This method dispenses with the old image of workers laboriously laying down layers of fibre in a mould and adding resin by brush . |
| 4 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |
| 5 | THE LEADERSHIP of the Scottish Labour Party yesterday played down talk of division between moderates and a group led by Mr George Galloway who founded Scotland United — a loose grouping of MPs , trades unionists and other prominent personalities — committed to home rule . |
| 6 | Committees for negotiations on teachers ' pay were set up by this Act , which also laid down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached . |
| 7 | The declaration also laid down guidelines on peace and disarmament issues , development , the environmental challenge , the realization of full political and economic democracy , culture and society , and the role of women and men in society . |
| 8 | Actuaries often break down populations for analysis by sex so it is only fair to apply the same process to ourselves . |
| 9 | The effect of a VAT would be simply to weigh down companies with paperwork , take more money from over-taxed Americans , and throw it into that black hole we call the American government . |
| 10 | The authorities sometimes turned down applications for butcher 's licences because they feared that the presence of such establishments would lead to increases in cattle stealing . |
| 11 | Early on , the RCM tried hard to play down differences with policy statements which leaned some way towards orthodoxy without limiting the freedom of the RCM to act in what it regarded as the best interests of individual children . |