Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 2 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 3 | The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends . |
| 4 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 5 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 6 | Moving upwards , how could she not be dragged down by the truth about Daisy ? |
| 7 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 8 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 9 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 10 | Thus , a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and can not be pinned down as a simplistic historical account . |
| 11 | Because he lost sight of me quickly , he knew that I could not be going down to the river or turning left into the church : he had an uninterrupted view of both . |
| 12 | ‘ And the mortgagee having sworn he paid and expended above £120 in defending his mortgage at law , although he had but £60 costs allowed him there … shall not be held down to the taxation at law , but shall against the account be allowed all he laid out , or expended . |
| 13 | They 're the only people who can keep anything open out in the sand , and not be closed down by the gangcults . |
| 14 | And since complicated situations or statements can very easily be broken down into a set of simple statements , this in effect means that computers can store complex pieces of information too . |
| 15 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 16 | But since more complicated instructions can always be broken down into a collection of simple steps , this does n't matter either . |
| 17 | Their victory can also be put down to the lack of a co-ordinated attack by the Whites . |
| 18 | Whereas we are encouraged to remember the pre-war years as the home of traditional discipline and common sense , we can hardly fail to notice the sympathy which reaches out to Hatton 's bad boys or to Butterworth 's hyperactive little terror — a sympathy , what is more , that nowadays would often be slapped down as a sentimental , modern , postwar ‘ permissive ’ fad . |
| 19 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 20 | Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years . |
| 21 | The cost accounts will therefore be closed down on the same date . |
| 22 | Some of them have concluded that existence constitutes that universal and elusive divine presence which can never be pinned down as a particular constituent of reality . |