Example sentences of "[to-vb] down the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While most people strongly condemn the drugs traffickers , critics point to the recent drive by international markets to drive down the price of coffee , Colombia 's main export — and to the continuing drain of resources into debt payments to Western banks — as evidence that the international community is not willing to make the kind of sacrifices needed to confront the social and economic roots of Latin America 's drug problem . |
| 2 | They believe the council , aware of its weak case in favour of the barrage , is trying to wear down the opposition by attrition . |
| 3 | It was argued that the government 's policy towards Austin Rover could be viewed as an attempt to slim down the company through rationalisation and privatise parts as they became profitable ( eg Jaguar ) , finishing up with an unprofitable rump which had very little chance of long-term viability on its own . |
| 4 | In the 1950s , the elderly were described as ‘ passengers ’ , threatening to pull down the standard of living enjoyed by society as a whole ; they were a regressive element , dampening the ‘ initiative of youth ’ , and playing a conservative role in social and political life . |
| 5 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 6 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 7 | The tendency of official commentators , such as the OECD , to play down the role of speculation is totally unconvincing . |
| 8 | Also , says Perera , the government tends to play down the importance of prevention and of synergism ( different chemicals in the environment working together ) , while they call for more epidemiology — or , as many environmentalists put it , ‘ counting the bodies ’ . |
| 9 | The answer lay not in trying to play down the search for glory in war , but in channelling these energies towards the service of the king who represented the public good and honour of a nation or people . |
| 10 | At last , just as Hazel was about to run down the slope to Blackberry 's burrow , he saw him come out of his hole , followed by no less than three rabbits . |
| 11 | Their aim is to keep down the price of meal ! ’ |
| 12 | There are almost as many cattle as before the drought , and the 100 000 tonnes of food aid a year goes mainly to keep down the price of food in the cities . |
| 13 | Secondly , under Dalton as Chancellor of the Exchequer , a policy of cheap money was adopted in 1945 to guard against medium-term deflation and to keep down the cost of borrowing . |
| 14 | No outlet was provided and , once the leat was full , the water was allowed to overflow down the hillside via sluice gates or boards , raising the temperature of the frosted land to that of the spring water and encouraging the grass to grow early — again to help feed sheep and lambs in the early spring . |
| 15 | He finds no real evidence of any government attempting to hold down the rate of inflation in the short run in order to promote its own popularity at election time . |
| 16 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So the insistence of some employees on cash payment tends to slow down the trend to cheque or transfer payment , and therefore to that wider use of bank accounts which we see as bringing considerable advantages to consumers in money management and cheaper credit availability . |
| 19 | All these signals would be sufficient to slow down the expansion of Dept . |
| 20 | Strikingly , MITI frequently tried to slow down the rate of accumulation to avoid overcapacity , a problem exacerbated by the increasing size of new plants which reduced the number to be built each year . |
| 21 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 22 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |
| 23 | Shadows of it still remained at his trial , two years later ; although his lawyer had evidently advised him to tone down the certitude of righteousness , it would slip out . |
| 24 | ‘ When the Wolfkings rule , ’ he said , and Fenella remembered Nuadu Airgetlam all over again and had to bite down the ache of loss . |
| 25 | IT was hardly a Sellars market as Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson scored brilliantly over Liverpool 's Kenny Dalglish to beat down the price for midfielder Scott Sellars |
| 26 | ( ii ) Awareness of the availability of information and of the complex nature of communication … ( iii ) Help … to break down the complexity of documentation so that broad categories and patterns can be observed . |
| 27 | The process uses a natural gas flame to break down the effluent into sulphur dioxide . |
| 28 | Carlson remembered the passage in the Book which talked about the Form Manipulator trying to break down the power of love . |
| 29 | The ability to break down the analysis by location and function enabled assessments to be made of the likely organisational consequences of a given set of boundaries as well as the effect on the overall and grade specific grading changes . |
| 30 | The domestic authorities can simply allow internal inflation to push down the rate of exchange . |