Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students may by now feel competent to generalise , and they should be encouraged to write down the number of patterns in a 4 × 2 grid , and test their answer by drawing . |
| 2 | Parliament and King agreed that a militia must be raised to put down the rebellion , but neither would trust its control to the other . |
| 3 | On the basis of these small but important findings , a case could be made to close down the whole of the provision in this sector . |
| 4 | As the dust began to subside , shafts of late afternoon light could be seen raking down the village streets . |
| 5 | The dealing manager would be hovering breathing down the dealers ' necks like Big Brother , nodding approvingly if they sounded convincing , or else shouting : " You need to be more fucking aggressive " ( so the client could hear him in the background ) . |
| 6 | The start of the game , with Scotland camped in Malta 's half , appeared to imply that the night would be spent wearing down a Maltese defence which used Buttigieg as a sweeper behind four other bodies . |
| 7 | In practice , the state scheme contributions pre-empt a slice of incomes which would otherwise be available for saving through pension schemes , and thus to that extent would be expected to slow down the growth of non-state provision . |
| 8 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 9 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 10 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 11 | Your spine runs down the centre of the body , so the corresponding foot reflex will be found running down the inside edge of both feet . |
| 12 | Susanna Rance finds out why serious-minded La Paz dwellers can be seen walking down the streets intently fondling toy cars , play-money and doll 's house pieces . |
| 13 | Because they are unaffected by psychology and do n't take break tests they can be used to pin down a much more powerful enemy , diverting attention away from the core units . |
| 14 | The answer is that no-one can control or even forecast accurately the maximum flow of water that can be expected to surge down the Tay valley and through Perth . |