Example sentences of "[vb pp] down in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month the European Socialist group , the largest in the European Parliament , threatened to sack the entire commission because the charter had been watered down in a vain attempt to secure Mrs Thatcher 's backing for it at the Strasbourg summit . |
| 2 | In pre-summit manoeuvres , European trade union leaders also warned of the ‘ danger of social strife ’ if the 1992 market arrived without proper social protection for workers and criticised France for allowing the Charter to be watered down in a doomed effort to win Mrs Thatcher 's support . |
| 3 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 4 | The other advantages inherent in the strategy were that ( i ) it enabled the allied forces to capitalise on their superior mobility and air power by minimizing the possibility of becoming bogged down in a static war ; ( ii ) it made the allies less vulnerable to attack by chemical weapons , as such weapons were most easily used from a static defensive position against an enemy engaged in a frontal assault ; ( iii ) it offered the possibility of cutting off all forces within Kuwait and southern Iraq — including the Republican Guard — thereby enabling the allies to destroy Iraq 's military capability in addition to liberating Kuwait ; and ( iv ) it meant that the allies would capture a swathe of Iraqi territory , a potentially useful lever in the event of the negotiation and implementation of ceasefire conditions . |
| 5 | Synthetics soon replaced cotton , an ostensibly practical move that saved players from being bogged down in a waterlogged kit that ripped easily . |
| 6 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 7 | I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ . |
| 8 | It was he whom Matthew had brought down in a flying tackle . |
| 9 | I wish I could be doing something , moving , he thought , with an infantryman 's loathing of being pinned down in a known position . |
| 10 | Only when the cells leave the zone do some begin to differentiate into cartilage ; and , as just stated , the cartilage elements are laid down in a proximo-distal sequence — first humerus , then radius and ulna , and only then wrist , and finally hand . |
| 11 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 12 | The only passion involved in this operation was an overmastering desire to see her nailed down in a brown box . |
| 13 | If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world . |
| 14 | Since the mere association of words will not unambiguously point to meaning , the words need to be set down in a particular arrangement . |
| 15 | She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine . |
| 16 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 17 | Dawn handed her a syringe filled with heart stimulant and soon Sandy was settled down in a warm recovery cage . |
| 18 | Tunnels are so emotive and the mind can conjure up thoughts of terror and the possibility of being run down in a dark tunnel . |
| 19 | Swinburn was knocked down in a late night incident in Newmarket a month ago — and rates himself lucky to be riding again at all . |