Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 3 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 4 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 5 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff . |
| 9 | If the drains get blocked , this cover can be removed and drain rods pushed down the rodding point to clear them . |
| 10 | This all reached a peak in 1988 when piss-filled cider bottles rained down the hapless likes of Meatloaf ( who ran away ) and Bonnie Tyler ( who did n't ! ) . |
| 11 | The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree . |
| 12 | This went through some crises , as when the Americans dispatched marines to put down a left-wing government in the British island of Grenada in 1984 , without communicating their intentions to the British government . |
| 13 | Five minutes later a plastic bag containing his wet , bloodstained pyjamas and a bottle of antiseptic fell on his bed and he heard Murray 's heavy footsteps retreat down the bare boards of the corridor . |
| 14 | I somehow do n't think they will take major amounts of money at those very restrictive odds , though I suppose you may get a couple of punters putting down a few quid each way : - ) . |
| 15 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | In a far-reaching judgment , the Court of Appeals laid down a new test for the determination of the question of non-literal copyright infringement , that is , whether there has been an infringement of copyright in non-literal elements such as program structure . |
| 18 | Raised beds built down an unpromising alley could provide extra gardening space . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now a quite unexpected calamity overtook the French ; the Bois Bourrus gunners rained down a murderous hail on the advancing Germans but in the soft swampy ground bordering the Meuse many of the shell fuses failed to explode . |
| 21 | However , this is not always the best direction , because boards running down the longest area of a room will make it seem even longer and narrower . |
| 22 | That 's a point not always appreciated by those who think solos belong down the local community centre . |
| 23 | SADDAM Hussein last night threatened revenge after American pilots shot down an Iraqi jet inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone . |
| 24 | Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ . |
| 25 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Remove Marxism — as the Hungarians have done this weekend — and the pressures to pull down the artificial barriers with the other freer , richer , and more appealing Germany , would become irresistible . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the West End area of Newcastle upon Tyne on Sept. 11 up to 300 rioters burned down a public house and started more than 20 other fires . |
| 30 | The Western sheep and cattle rangers cut down the big trees and put a stop to the burning of bush . |