Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |