Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use the patterns to write down the A three . |
| 2 | So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning . |
| 3 | It also includes the skills of using books , such as using the contents and the index to track down the topics required . |
| 4 | Troops quickly dispersed the students , but further unrest was reported the following day , prompting the authorities to close down the country 's universities and colleges . |
| 5 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 6 | It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task . |
| 7 | They confirmed it was 32 per cent bigger all the way around than the plans allowed for — and now councillors have ordered the Foys to pull down the house , claiming it was built too big deliberately . |
| 8 | She played the message over again , grabbing a note-pad from the desk to jot down the number . |
| 9 | Loper is following up recent research by several scientists , particularly H. Weber and colleagues of the Institute of Toxicology in Zurich , Switzerland and John Brooker at the University of Adelaide , Australia : Weber found that dogs fed massive doses of one type of dioxin , TCDD , detoxified the chemical with the liver enzyme , cytochrome p 450 mon-oxygenase , and Brooker used chick embryos as a source of the enzyme to track down the messenger RNA responsible for producing it . |
| 10 | Cristiani had come under pressure in late October from right-wing elements in his own Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) party and the military to slow down the peace process [ see p. 39137 ] , but his government also came under intense diplomatic pressure at the UN to keep to Dec. 15 as the date for the formal cessation of hostilities . |
| 11 | So for the the water to go down the current to flow through . |
| 12 | Er you ca n't imagine this I do n't suppose , but nevertheless it 's true and in a time , the men in the shop they was mass-production , you know what I mean and they wanted this or that or the other , well I had the authority to go down the machine shop and tell them , look here , so and so wants this you do that . |
| 13 | The offer to close down the reactors was conditional on the receipt of economic aid to help modernize Bulgaria 's nuclear industry , which supplied over one-third of the country 's electricity requirements . |
| 14 | You were unable to arouse Sir Thomas so you asked the servants to break down the door ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid . |
| 16 | The FMLN stated that agricultural work and legalized land had to be guaranteed , and accused the traditional oligarchic sector — the country 's major landowners — of exerting pressure on the government to slow down the peace process . |
| 17 | Darlington-based Keepsafe opened a site , without planning permission , on an old foundry site , but land owners , the Teesside Development Corporation , ordered the firm to close down the site . |
| 18 | This produces the intense flux of neutrons ; heavy water flows through the reactor to slow down the neutrons so that they react better with the lithium . |
| 19 | BP researchers at Sunbury have joined the hunt to track down the cause of a mysterious illness affecting elephants in Zimbabwe . |
| 20 | It found that Blecha had instructed officials including the police to slow down the inquiry against Proksch , had suppressed incriminating files and had brought disciplinary measures against officials working on the inquiry , as well as giving incomplete information to parliament on a number of occasions as regards the progress of the inquiry . |
| 21 | The man is still helping the police to track down the whereabouts of an undisclosed number of missing objects . |
| 22 | Erm , speaking in opposition to the motion to shut down the college . |
| 23 | Gillard even considers that the hospital was in the vanguard of therapeutic optimism in the 1950s , ‘ being one of the first in the country to pull down the perimeter wall and unlock the wards , encouraging patients to mix freely ’ . |
| 24 | The ability to break down the analysis by location and function enabled assessments to be made of the likely organisational consequences of a given set of boundaries as well as the effect on the overall and grade specific grading changes . |
| 25 | The ability to cut down the distance signals travel by reducing the size of the computer is limited by the amount of heat the components generate ; a computer that is too small will get too hot . |
| 26 | Now is not the time to rip down the wallpaper or tear down walls . ’ |
| 27 | yds ) of surface area to which the bacteria employed in the filter to break down the waste products can adhere — and the open construction allows a good supply of atmospheric oxygen to pass through the material . |
| 28 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 29 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 30 | Today in a bid to keep down the voles , the Department of Transport and the Forestry Commission began placing Kestrel nesting boxes along the M40 motorway . |