Example sentences of "be [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can he justify a cost per job in the strategic deterrent of £352,000 in a world in which the major powers are building down and renouncing weapons but he is building up ? |
| 2 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 3 | Most hospitals now have chapels , but many are hidden down corridors and are uninviting . |
| 4 | Spinster Rosemarie , 52 , had been paralysed down her right side since birth . |
| 5 | Twitch bites have always been a problem , and the best answers have been to scale down tackle and bait to encourage a better bite , or to hover over the rod and attempt to strike and hit the twitch bite . |
| 6 | Since that time the trees which had once enthicketed the hut had been lopped down and now the pyramidal vernal tent stood isolated among a company of stumps , like stepping-stones from the forest to Kitty 's lair . |
| 7 | It had to come from some distance away since over the centuries the trees and bushes on both sides of the river had been lopped down . |
| 8 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 9 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 10 | We are eased down . |
| 11 | Walls are tumbling down . |
| 12 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 13 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 14 | People like myself and the footballers and athletes , we 're black and have been pressed down . |
| 15 | Make sure that the wire retainer clips are pressed down firmly to hold the towel in place . |
| 16 | Without the atmosphere of a Pixies show , the songs are stripped down , with only the words and the base structure to see them through . |
| 17 | Without the atmosphere of a Pixies show , the songs are stripped down , with only the words and the base structure to see them through . |
| 18 | Director Sue Humphreys said the figure was inflated because assets and debts owed to the firm had been calculated down . |
| 19 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 20 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 21 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
| 22 | Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain . |
| 23 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | By October , when the administration 's Operations Sub-Group on Terrorism met in the White House Situation Room , the target list had been whittled down to one , Fawaz Younis , whom the CIA described as ‘ a key player in the back-street world of terrorism … who reported directly to the leadership of the Shiite Amal militia ’ . |
| 25 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 26 | However , when these figures are broken down , it can be seen that certain groups , such as single women over 75 , are less likely to have an occupational pension , and , if they do , the average amount is less . |
| 27 | Goals are much easier to attain if they are broken down into small steps . |
| 28 | Protein molecules themselves , however , are not immortal : they are broken down , and must be replaced . |
| 29 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 30 | As these wastes are broken down by physical , chemical , and bacterial action , they gradually form ‘ humus ’ , a highly important binding factor in the formation of stable soil crumbs or tilth and in the transformation of minerals into soluble plant nutrients . |