Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Acts lay down a minimum standard for air quality , and impose pollution emission controls to particular polluters . |
| 2 | With the RAF closing down the adjacent airfield and it going on the market next year , YAM ‘ hope to expand and seek to continue to expand ’ , remarked Ian . |
| 3 | This is a problem from which the ordinary courts are not immune , but it is true that this type of uncertainty is absent from the rival schemes because there the courts lay down the precise meaning which a term should bear . |
| 4 | The opposite seems to have been the case in the decision to shut down the Unlisted Securities Market and the resulting uproar : a failure to ensure all needs and requirements were still met somehow . |
| 5 | These were the corporal 's final words before he went round the barracks turning down every one of the gas lights . |
| 6 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 7 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 8 | At the side put down a rough guess of the cost that might be involved . |
| 9 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 10 | The Waverley puttered down the still narrow river like a little terrier keen to get to the open fields of the Firth and the sea beyond . |
| 11 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 12 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 13 | It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared . |
| 14 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 15 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 16 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 17 | The sun beams down an astonishing amount of energy to our planet — one year 's global energy use in the space of an hour . |
| 18 | The law lays down the general principle , and the doctor who acts skilfully , reasonably , and in good faith is protected . |
| 19 | Again the danger came down the left flank as Dow passed to Drew Waddell who touched down . |
| 20 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 21 | The treaty was eventually ratified but the crisis brought down the Kishi government and produced the most widespread political protests of the postwar years . |
| 22 | Scunthorpe 's faithful few in a crowd of 7,682 had huddled on the terraces like penguins on an ice floe as the dankness seeped down the Pennine valleys . |
| 23 | The barmaid turned down the chintzy bed cover . |
| 24 | Expertly , the gardener pinned down the last of the net with a wire stake . |
| 25 | ‘ Feel worse , ’ I said glumly , watching the water cascade down the concrete stair-case of the spillway . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never seen anything so magnificent , ’ she said , and stared at the water cascading down the three-tier construction . |
| 27 | Nutty practised the crawl in her bath and the water dripped down the light cord in the dining-room below and collected in the glass bowl-shaped shade . |
| 28 | Last week the court handed down a preliminary injunction forbidding sale of Axil 's Model 230 SparcStation 10 clone and a temporary restraining order on its Model 310 . |
| 29 | The other came down a short distance the other side of the village of Whelford |
| 30 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |