Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 2 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 3 | A heron appears , flapping ponderously across the voe and drops down beside a second bird I have n't seen , which is standing motionless in the shallows . |
| 4 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |
| 5 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 6 | There 's a swimming pool and sauna , and a path leads down to a private lakeside beach , and being a castle style hotel , there 's plenty of style . |
| 7 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 8 | The garden slopes down to a peaceful mill stream . |
| 9 | He fills it up , and cooks for himself , and when it gets down to a certain level then he thinks , ‘ now I might do a concert ’ . |
| 10 | As tread depth gets down to a certain level , the efficiency of the tyre reduces . |
| 11 | The south side of the cut dips down into a beautiful hollow of vines , all but the lowest locations being ideally situated . |
| 12 | Along one of its sides the swastika meander breaks down into a confused key pattern . |
| 13 | The engine backs down upon a few trucks , perhaps a single one ; there is a quick manipulation of a coupling stick , and the engine draws off with its insignificant load . |
| 14 | The South African sun burns down from a cloudless sky . |
| 15 | It all boils down to a simple equation : |
| 16 | In fact , as we have seen , it boils down to a moral evaluation of differentiation ( rather than a ‘ scientific ’ finding ) : the differences that distinguish criminals are things that are deemed to have ‘ gone wrong ’ with their biology , psyche or values . |
| 17 | It boils down to a sharp retraction in the Plains economy . |
| 18 | There will be other forms of contingency strategy , where home care spending — perhaps up to one-third of the overall allocation — is deliberately held back until the residential and nursing home spend settles down into a recognisable pattern . |
| 19 | When a black hole is created by gravitational collapse , it rapidly settles down to a stationary state that is characterized by only three parameters : the mass , the angular momentum , and the electric charge . |
| 20 | ( It is rather like dropping a cork into water : at first it bobs up and down a great deal , but as the ripples carry away its energy , it eventually settles down to a stationary state . ) |
| 21 | The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state . |
| 22 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 23 | The way the parapet wall , which screens the attics , sweeps down in a bold curve is exceptionally pretty , and it really makes you want to stop and stare at the house as you glimpse it through trees and across the river meadow from the Dorchester to Godmanstone road . |
| 24 | Because a lifetime of debauchery somehow loses its romantic kudos once it winds down to a respectable job and keep-fit classes ; it stops being a biopic and starts sounding like a how-I-conquered-my-bad-habits-and-became-a-normal-person telefilm . |
| 25 | The picture flicks down like a faulty framehold , vanishes beneath the rising sill . |
| 26 | Indeed the feeder pipe almost certainly extends down to a large magma reservoir well below sea level . |
| 27 | Diesel is available on the pontoons from a long pipe which extends down from a makeshift pump at the pontoon head . |
| 28 | The light now dies down to a mere flicker of ‘ fire ’ , appropriate enough considering the onslaught of death imagery with ‘ death-bed ’ , ‘ ashes ’ , ‘ expire ’ and perhaps , again , ‘ consumed ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ … unfortunately , ’ Michele went on , ‘ I have n't a clue as to where Lucia 's secret hiding-place might be , so it comes down to a straightforward search . ’ |
| 30 | The hon. Member for Dundee , East called on us to promise a review , but that comes down to a running review and immediate flexibility . |