Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 2 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 3 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 4 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 5 | Recognizing the complexities and psychological dangers of this awesome doctrine , most non-Puritan clergy played down the Calvinist theory of salvation to such an extent that many of their parishioners were able to continue to believe that their conduct could influence their destination after death . |
| 6 | Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) had subjects write down the central detail from each slide and Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) had them evaluate the affective quality of each slide , both these studies showed results which appeared to be consistent with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 7 | Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff . |
| 8 | If the drains get blocked , this cover can be removed and drain rods pushed down the rodding point to clear them . |
| 9 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 10 | White House officials played down the revolutionary tenor of Reagan 's comments , saying that no new infusion of money was set aside for lasers , only that a ‘ reorganisation ’ of the new disparate research projects is underway . |
| 11 | That 's a point not always appreciated by those who think solos belong down the local community centre . |
| 12 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 13 | In particular , recourse to the quantity theory of money enabled the classical writers to pin down the absolute price level and this , together with a knowledge of the full-employment real wage rate , w * ; , made the money wage rate a determinate variable . |
| 14 | At harvest services when the church was crowded and extra seats were needed the stewards simply borrowed what chairs they could get form the neighbours living down the White Row in Carrickblacker Road . |
| 15 | Toshack has taken pains to play down the hard-man image he brought from San Sebastian , swearing that the extra training ordered after the poor performance at Castellon was not a punishment . |
| 16 | On the corner of Carter Lane , with the mass of St Paul 's cathedral towering above us , we had to pause whilst labourers using ward hooks pulled down the still smouldering , blackening timbers of a burnt-out tenement to ensure no spark ignited neighbouring houses . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Furthermore , eligibility for statutory payments declined down the occupational ladder and those eligible for payment earned more than those ineligible — findings particularly significant for women . |
| 19 | Tears ran down the old man 's cheeks when he heard that . |
| 20 | But after three days this week of 500-plus point drops in the Nikkei , most observers called the bounce yesterday technical and temporary , especially with scandals and bad debts breathing down the financial sector 's neck . |
| 21 | Necessary truths passed down the female line over centuries , and what does the accumulated wisdom amount to ? |
| 22 | The men came down the stern ladder . |
| 23 | The tendency of historians to play down the general effect of the Combination Laws seems rather insensitive to the feeling of oppression widely found in these manufacturing districts . |
| 24 | Police broke down the front door to take the dog away . |
| 25 | The girl 's ordeal lasted 12 hours until police broke down the front door and arrested five people . |
| 26 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 27 | This slack gives vitals seconds to get down the opposite flank before the load comes on the rope . |
| 28 | Police shut down the new business , called Kim 's , last week after a covert operation . |
| 29 | Police shut down the new business , called Kim 's , last week after a covert operation . |
| 30 | However , a draft report by a secret ministerial advisory group reviewing ‘ persistent unemployment ’ suggests further measures to bring down the jobless tally could be in the pipeline . |