Example sentences of "to [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 2 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 3 | In addition to bringing down interest rates by another two per cent , he has to establish the right monetary policy after sticking to the wrong one for two years . |
| 4 | YOUR EDITORIAL writers need reminding that our campaign of non-payment of the poll tax led to its abolition and substantially contributed to bringing down Mrs Thatcher . |
| 5 | They say their study has been prompted by the Government 's commitment to driving down medical bills , forcing NHS bodies to view ‘ value for money ’ as a key area of treatment policy . |
| 6 | That new portable interpreter for Ken Iverson 's J notation of his APL language ( CI No 2,138 ) is yet another piece of bad news for IBM Corp 's mainframe business , because all the so-called rocket scientists at firms like Morgan Stanley & Co — for whom J developer Roger Hui works — that write the fiendishly clever software that is used in program trading of shares on Wall Street , use the APL language — on IBM mainframes , and J promises to enable the software to moved down to much cheaper RISC-based boxes . |
| 7 | British Rail themselves , the guardians of this heritage , gave a blockbusting philistine lead by demolishing the Euston Arch , an act somewhat akin to tearing down Salisbury Cathedral or Windsor Castle . |
| 8 | Spymaster Stella Rimington will lead a 2,000-strong secret army dedicated to hunting down the terrorists . ’ |
| 9 | I even know of one customer whose cat has taken to bedding down in hers . ’ |
| 10 | At first you will only be able to crouch down on the board , but as you get used to pulling down on the booms to pull yourself up again , you will be able to get lower . |
| 11 | They confined their attacks to pulling down Deane . |
| 12 | It 's only the bit of to stuffed down my ear hole . |
| 13 | I wo n't be a party to turning down any more of these good fellows . " |
| 14 | ‘ But I looked forward to going down the mine . |
| 15 | erm , I , well I ca n't commit myself to going down to that to , I mean if it 's , if I can I 'll give you a ring because with Cherry being off as well it 's , I mean it 's gon na be unfair if I start , cos I 've been so much |
| 16 | An added incentive to tracking down the railways is that they are invariably in rural France , away from the speeding motorway traffic . |
| 17 | ‘ Randy 's a major collector of guitars ; he and Brian dedicate most of their spare time to tracking down old Gretsches all over the country . |
| 18 | If my theorising is correct , then the " Cenomanian transgression " was in part due to wearing down of the Hercynian and perhaps later ranges ( as in the western United States ) together with marginal sedimentation . |
| 19 | They angrily deny any such hidden agenda in their own ranks , insisting their campaign spans the religious divide and citing non-sectarian politics as the route to breaking down traditional divisions . |
| 20 | We are also committed to breaking down artificial barriers to women 's advancement based on prejudice or lack of imagination . |
| 21 | Lack of resources and strong resistance to breaking down barriers between health care agencies are other contributing factors . |
| 22 | He was near to breaking down . |
| 23 | Belinda had stumbled upon him one day several months ago when he was alone in a little-used store-room at the far end of the ward , and she had seen immediately that he was near to breaking down . |
| 24 | Gysin , who exhibited with the Surrealists at the tender age of 19 , dedicated his life to breaking down the barriers between painting and writing . |
| 25 | I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints . |
| 26 | But we had only a month in Borneo and after just three days — rather than the recommended three weeks — relaxing in Miri , the capital of Sarawak , we were looking forward to getting down to some trekking , the purpose of the trip . |
| 27 | She had been reluctant to put it away , wishing she had no other commitments so that she could continue with the next chapter and looking forward to getting down to work again the following morning . |
| 28 | So I think there 's an element still to come out in , in that area , er but if you look at er , er the er issue generally , there 's a lot in the White Paper on er more than I expected actually , on energy efficiency , which I think is one of the keys to getting down er levels of carbon dioxide , and there is discussion about some of the many many ways in which the role of the motor car will affect er how we reduce our C O two . |
| 29 | Punishment ranges from denying interviewers access to cabinet ministers to holding down the BBC 's licence fee , appointing suitable people to control both BBC and commercial broadcasting , and stimulating the public to accuse the broadcasters of bias . |
| 30 | Increased international competition almost certainly contributed to holding down profit margins . |