Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) . |
| 2 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 3 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 4 | The artwork is placed down onto the UV light box so that the ‘ Copper Track View ’ of the artwork is downwards , towards the light source . |
| 5 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 6 | Needless to say Jeffery , and many others , have had little difficulty in showing how all such attempts have inevitably boiled down to the arbitrary moral predilections of the criminologists concerned . |
| 7 | True to his word , Tom Warner had located an immense 8-wheeled transcontinental locomotive , not yet cooled down at the divisional changing point , assembled a crew of engineer and fireman , loaded the engine with coal and water , and attached the engine to the Divisional Superintendent 's own private railway coach . |
| 8 | Yawning , not hiding it , them an sat down on an ancient easy chair on one side of the dead fireplace . |
| 9 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 10 | A major mining project has been turned down by the Australian Labour government in favour of preserving species unique to the area and defending the land rights of Aborigines . |
| 11 | It was the first time an Iraqi plane has been shot down in the southern no-fly zone , set up to prevent Saddam attacking the Shi'ites . |
| 12 | Each line of script represents one second of running time and the words are written down at the normal speaking rate of three per second . |
| 13 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 14 | For his own part , the prince would cheerfully have bedded down in the cramped military quarters he normally used on his periodical visits , but he was punctilious in providing every amenity for his guests , and the greater space and grace of the abbot 's apartments made approach to his own person easier , and brought more petitioners in search of his favour , which at once satisfied his thirsty sense of duty , and wore him out into childish sleepiness by nightfall . |
| 15 | The word had been handed down from the so-called serial killer , Alan Yentob , the newly-appointed BBC1 controller . |
| 16 | Are not those successful British companies sick and tired of being talked down by the doom-monger Labour party ? |
| 17 | He reckoned he had picked the wrong waves at the Hard Rock at Sunset , and was worn down by the sheer hard labour of surfing so long in such arduous conditions . |
| 18 | The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling , but in regions that were slightly denser than average , the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction . |
| 19 | Really , the range of deviance that gets linked with S&M ( everything from suburban catwomen to lesbian ‘ chicks with dicks ’ , from gay men attending workshops on scat to the body piercing crowd ) is too diverse , in some cases too much of a genuine underground , to be tied down to a single political reading . |
| 20 | Thus , a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and can not be pinned down as a simplistic historical account . |
| 21 | Real growth of 3 per cent and an unemployment rate of 4.7 per cent were predicted , as were a reduction in the net budget deficit to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , with a long-term aim of a reduction to 2.5 per cent by 1992 as laid down in the SPÖ-ÖVP joint programme of 1987 [ see p. 35088 ] . |
| 22 | Other Terms and Conditions of this post are as laid down by the National Joint Council as adopted by Lothian Regional Council . |
| 23 | In the case of breed classes , every entrant is judged not against the other dogs in that class , but rather against the prescribed ‘ ideal ’ for the breed concerned , as laid down by the governing canine authority . |
| 24 | With practice I learned that those flames instantly settled down to a proper blue flame . |
| 25 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
| 26 | How true the tale of this lemming population might be is beyond verification ; certainly a great deal of the monastic retelling of it could be put down to the strong regional bias of Northumbrian biographers against the strange races of the deep south . |
| 27 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 28 | There were serious disturbances in Beirut and Tripoli which were put down by the new Lebanese administration with the help of French troops . |
| 29 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 30 | The Ronseal varnishes used here can also be applied to a painted or previously varnished surface that has been rubbed down with a fine abrasive paper . |