Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any attempt to nail down individuals with the aid of rules and collective values seems doomed to vague and complex generalities . |
| 2 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 3 | Both Watanjar and Patkin were leading Khalqis , a detail that was stressed by the government in an attempt to play down divisions within the party . |
| 4 | erm It could be that erm with a different political regime , you might get a positive commitment not to run down things like the schools , the hospitals , British Leyland , erm British Airways , British Steel and the rest . |
| 5 | Truman struggled to keep down prices through the Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) — a wartime agency still in existence — but he had limited success . |
| 6 | The deal is not affected by this week 's decision to slow down part of the emergency aid agreed upon by the Twelve in December because of the repression in the Baltic republics . |
| 7 | After the race , the track was redesigned to slow down traffic at the corners . |
| 8 | A scheme to slow down traffic in the area has already been agreed by the County Council , but Chairman of the District Council , Ken Hall , says ‘ this is n't the end to all the problems ’ . |
| 9 | Specific work on it in secondary schools is often essential in order to break down resistance to the subject . |
| 10 | Co-location of staffs would help to break down barriers between the Services , and the development of tri-Service staffs at lower levels would also build up the necessary expertise . |
| 11 | To break down tension in the shoulders and arms , buttocks and thighs , make loose fists and , keeping your elbows and wrists relaxed , drum quickly over the flesh . |
| 12 | Stalin sought to lay down criteria for the identification of a ‘ nation ’ ( the entity which possessed the right of national self-determination ) as a means , a moral theory , to separate authentic and spurious claims . |
| 13 | Furthermore by taking an ideological rather than merely a dispositive approach he is able to lay down principles for the reconstruction of societas in the modern age . |
| 14 | The project aims not only to resettle youngsters who struggle to lay down roots in the capital , but to stop them heading South in the first place . |
| 15 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 16 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |