Example sentences of "[to-vb] down as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |
| 2 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 3 | If for example the relations between Moslem populations in the United Kingdom , or between those populations and the non-Moslem community , were to break down as a result of the crisis in the Gulf , the implications for social cohesion public order and the peaceful coexistence of communities would be grave . |
| 4 | John Thornton of fund managers Murray Johnstone sees the Charities Act as a godsend : ‘ We are seeing apathy starting to break down as a result of the Charities Act ’ . |
| 5 | John Thornton of fund managers Murray Johnstone sees the Act as a godsend : ‘ We are seeing apathy starting to break down as a result of the Charities Act ’ |
| 6 | In other words , it is contrary to Community law for a member state to lay down as a requirement for registration that the owners , operators , shareholders and directors , as the case may be must reside and be domiciled in that member state and , in the case of a company , that it must have its principal place of business there . |
| 7 | of the directors and shareholders of a company owning or operating the vessel must be nationals of the state , even if the competent national authority has the legal power to dispense with that requirement in the case of certain persons ; ( b ) it is contrary to Community law for a member state to lay down as a requirement for registration that the owners , operators , shareholders and directors , as the case may be , must reside and be domiciled in that member state and , in the case of a company , that it must have its principal place of business there ; and ( c ) it is not contrary to Community law for a member state to make the grant of its flag subject to the requirement that the vessel must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state . |
| 8 | If the LEA were to lay down as a condition of grant that we should have nothing to do with the University body , we should refuse the grant , and I do not see why Universities should not show the same loyalty to us . |