Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is serious doubt about whether Italy can achieve the norms laid down by the Maastricht Treaty , and qualify for membership of the European Community single market next year and full monetary union by 1997 or later . |
| 2 | This function is primarily undertaken in a school ( within the parameters laid down by the LEA ) by the governors , the headteacher and the deputies . |
| 3 | ( e ) Every member state adopting nationality requirements consistently with international law would be in breach of Community law , presumably since the end of the transitional periods laid down by the E.E.C . |
| 4 | All but one of the 12 videos ( ‘ Stop Me ’ ) are so dull one requires tentative electric shocks to the eyelids to keep awake , while five ( ‘ What Difference ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows ’ , ‘ Shoplifters ’ , ‘ Boy ’ and ‘ Sheila ’ ) are n't even proper videos at all , just Top Of The Pops appearances dusted down from the BBC archives . |
| 5 | A piece of shrapnel hit her helmet when six mortar bombs rained down outside the BBC 's base near the UN headquarters in Sarajevo . |
| 6 | Section 3(1) ( d ) permits a market maker to do ‘ any particular thing in relation to any particular securities ’ which would otherwise be in breach of the prohibitions laid down in the CSA 1985 ‘ if the information was : |
| 7 | This marked the recommencement of the peace process which had been under serious threat in recent months as both the FMLN and the government accused each other of not abiding by the conditions laid down in the January peace treaty [ see pp. 38716 ; 38809 ; 38906 ] . |
| 8 | Those who prepare courses of initial teaching training must ( in addition to meeting conditions laid down by the CNAA ) also satisfy the requirements of the Government 's Advisory committee on the Supply and Education of Teachers ( CATE ) . |
| 9 | For all this to take place in so remote an area required not only payment of high wages but elaborate logistic arrangements on a massive scale , particularly with the strict conditions laid down by the Shetlands Islands Council to protect both the environment and the local way of life . |
| 10 | Users had to present their data in ways laid down by the DP department ; they found themselves bound by the DP department 's priorities rather than by their own ; and , in addition , they had to compete with colleagues for use of the computer 's facilities . |
| 11 | Some of these have developed a taste for human flesh , perhaps as a result of feeding on bodies washed down by the Ganges during the ever more frequent floods . |
| 12 | Moulvi Ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered when the Muslims broke open the doors of the mosque , which had been locked for months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 13 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 14 | Within the requirements laid down by the Franks Report of the need for openness , fairness and impartiality , the objective is to achieve a formal procedure with an informal atmosphere . |
| 15 | The vaccine brings hope to 1,300 young children struck down by the Hib form of deadly disease every year . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of the great wad of paper work which MPs get handed at the end of the Budget statement was the revelation tucked away that , even on Norman Lamont 's most optimistic financial forecast , the UK would not be in a position to meet the European Economic convergence criteria laid down in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 17 | They were judged on the criteria laid down by the EC Directive — that they should be unbiased , should properly examine alternatives , and should detail the measures that would be taken to mitigate any environmental damage . |
| 18 | Every city-born Yorkshire tyke comes into this world with an inborn , umbilical attachment to the Dales , those lush valleys below the brooding moorland where the Yorkshire rivers flow down to the Humber : Wharfedale , Swaledale , Airedale , Nidderdale , and Wensleydale , the only one not named alter its river , the Ure . |
| 19 | Swirls of clouds billowed down from the Towers and the glaciers hung vertically , suspended like gigantic icicles , while flocks of birds scattered and spun before them , helpless in the wild turbulence . |
| 20 | By far the more important comprised rivers flowing down from the Kunlun Mountains in the regions of Khotan and Yarkand on the south-eastern margin of the great basin containing the Taklamakan Desert . |
| 21 | In August 1952 the innocent-looking East and West Lyn rivers swept down into the Devon resort of Lynmouth , obliterating houses and removing all trace of the Beach Hotel , which was carried out to sea . |
| 22 | The commotion is ignored by all others bustling down into the Earls Court bowels . |