Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost accounts will therefore be closed down on the same date . |
| 2 | Away from the madding crowds the Sarsfields clubman is to be found down on the 100 acre family farm in Ballyuan presiding over the sheep and cattle . |
| 3 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 4 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 5 | Now that the EC is cracking down on the ozone-depleting solvents used in dry-cleaning processes , you could face problems . |
| 6 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 7 | But i it depends Terry with everybody 's going down on the urgent work ones which is putting the normal service |
| 8 | So who 's coming down on the eleventh or twelfth of November ? |
| 9 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 10 | Technically he is excellent but you have noticed that he is falling down on the supervisory aspects of his job . |
| 11 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 12 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 13 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
| 14 | Then we fitted each tyre back on to the wheel which was clamped down on the tyring platform . |
| 15 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |
| 16 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |