Example sentences of "[noun sg] slow down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The united front put up by the other EC leaders was made possible by the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , who abandoned any attempt to slow down the decision on an inter-governmental conference . |
| 2 | The severe artificial banking was removed and in 1967 the lap was extended slightly and a chicane added near the start at Tiergarten in an attempt to slow down the circuit . |
| 3 | Mr Kovac did not elaborate but his statement was in line with Mr Meciar 's oft-declared intention to slow down the pace of economic reform introduced by free market apostle Vaclav Klaus after the collapse of communism . |
| 4 | As the glider slows down the braking should be reduced to avoid lifting the tail . |
| 5 | Deep snow-drifts and sheet ice slowed down the party 's progress , and beyond Bar-le-Duc it was reduced to an average of two miles an hour , on running into the chaotic rear of the Verdun army . |
| 6 | HOLYBOURNE residents are being urged to support a campaign to slow down the traffic through their village . |
| 7 | Cristiani had come under pressure in late October from right-wing elements in his own Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) party and the military to slow down the peace process [ see p. 39137 ] , but his government also came under intense diplomatic pressure at the UN to keep to Dec. 15 as the date for the formal cessation of hostilities . |
| 8 | Cooler water slows down the fish 's metabolism . |
| 9 | There is no political censorship to slow down the information . ’ |
| 10 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet actually reduces the rates of hormone production by the thyroid , and in turn slows down the metabolic rate . |
| 11 | This view actually parallels modern scientific thinking , which presumes that the universe is evolving towards final destruction when the inevitable pull of gravity slows down the rate of expansion . |
| 12 | Alternatively , they can be moving away from each other , with gravity slowing down the velocity of the recession . |
| 13 | The FMLN stated that agricultural work and legalized land had to be guaranteed , and accused the traditional oligarchic sector — the country 's major landowners — of exerting pressure on the government to slow down the peace process . |
| 14 | The solvent used tends to be methylene chloride thickened with SCMC to a gel consistency to slow down the evaporation of the solvent and to make the product easy to apply . |
| 15 | On Jan. 15 , Czechoslovak officials claimed that the Soviet Finance MInister , Valentin Pavlov had sought to postpone the Prague meeting in an effort to slow down the pace of reform within COMECON . |
| 16 | This produces the intense flux of neutrons ; heavy water flows through the reactor to slow down the neutrons so that they react better with the lithium . |
| 17 | MORE and more women are turning to expensive cosmetic surgery to slow down the ageing clock — but as our pictures show , it is n't always a cut above less drastic beauty remedies . |