Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artwork is placed down onto the UV light box so that the ‘ Copper Track View ’ of the artwork is downwards , towards the light source . |
| 2 | It is the variance , not the midspread , which is broken down into a fitted ( ‘ explained ’ ) and residual ( ‘ unexplained ’ ) component . |
| 3 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 4 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 5 | The general quality of the whole machine is let down by the tacky keyboard . |
| 6 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 7 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 8 | The procedure is laid down in the 1971 Planning Act — Section 26 — and is a prerequisite for a valid application . |
| 9 | The definition of refugee is laid down in the United Nations convention . |
| 10 | Some experienced foilers hold onto the spar end of a Flexifoil , shaking it while nearly vertical then when air-filled , it is brought down to the horizontal for the assisted launch . |
| 11 | Shortly before the first autumn snows the flock is brought down from the high pastures . |
| 12 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 13 | Sequences of actions are shown in numbered steps , and everything is split down into the smallest possible steps . |
| 14 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 15 | Suck all the air out from under the plastic so it is forced down over the wooden former . |
| 16 | The popularity is put down to a good flavour — with its tight creamy head it 's similar to Tetley 's — the lack of any other light bitters in Nicholson 's range that compete with it and a slight price advantage of around five pence . |
| 17 | The second is put down by a another sacked minister , Mr George Walden , who opposes the bill in principle . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's kept down to an absolute bare minimum . |
| 19 | For there will never be any new thing other than that which has been before , but everything is repeated down to the minutest detail . |
| 20 | [ 5 ] From time to time , a van is sent down to the Regional Chief Executive 's Department to get census data ( on disk ) . |
| 21 | If one suspect confesses and implicates the other , who does not confess , the confessor will go free as a reward for cooperation , while the partner is sent down for the maximum sentence , 10 years . |