Example sentences of "[noun sg] be down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The pound is down against the dollar at ( $1.75 ) one dollar , seventy five , but up against the mark at ( 2.88 ) two marks eighty eight .
2 The pound is down against the dollar and the Deutsch Mark at one dollar , seventy-three and at two marks , eighty-eight .
3 I mean , you know , when I was student at L S E , you know , the front of the , of the demonstration was down at the Law Courts , the back was still in , at , at er , Oxford Street , or something , you know .
4 The hire car was down in the car park , the one near Miller 's End .
5 Any impression of calm and harmony is down to the fact that everyone close to the band has obviously passed the Krypton Factor -sponsored How To Tolerate Courtney test .
6 Choice of sex and colour is down to the individual .
7 The fishermen 's quarter is down by the quayside , along with some of the best seafood restaurants .
8 The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay .
9 Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all .
10 So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about .
11 He says much of his success is down to the backroom boys .
12 PERHAPS THE SHAMEN 'S SUCCESS is down to the fact that , even more than in their indie dance days , they are a bundle of productive contradictions .
13 Er , once the , the man was down on the floor er he placed his hands into the small of his back .
14 The blind was down at the window .
15 The apparent discrepancy is down to the way IDC defines the workstation market .
16 Their favourite walk was down across the waste ground along Deptford Creek .
17 Much of the performance of Windows on any PC is down to the compatibility of the hardware with the operating system , and Windows itself .
18 And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes .
19 Could you tell me whether the problem is down to the type of speakers employed — maybe producing too soft a sound wave with little strength of travel — and whether I would get better projection through a standard model 1960 Marshall cabinet rated at 300 watts RMS ?
20 my mailing system was down over the weekend and I did not receive any mail .
21 The 13 p.c. advance in profits to £8m in the industrial division was down to the inclusion of Flexible Technologies , a manufacturer of hoses pipes and flexible ducting , acquired for £34m at the end of August last year .
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