Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's ridiculous the whole nation should be slowed down to the mind of a 12-year-old , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ Laz , before you get your trusty Smith and Whatever platinum plated , do n't you think we should be getting down to the business , which is your business . |
| 3 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 4 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 5 | What about twinning , do you think that that 's of such a high priority that when council houses need repairs that those repairs should be put down on the ladder and said ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't deal with that because part of the money that we could allocate to council house repairs is being used for twinning and things like that ’ ? |
| 6 | Part of the problem is that , because we know we should be cutting down on the amount of sugar we eat , we 're turning more and more to diet drinks , which contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin . |
| 7 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 8 | The place should be closed down by the Environmental Health Department . |
| 9 | The requirement for disinfection of food contact surfaces , therefore , applies in general only to those areas where high risk foods are handled or to situations where levels of micro-organisms must be kept down to an acceptable level to maintain shelf life . |
| 10 | I thought she must be coming down in a moment . |
| 11 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 12 | That , that 's a rational law , okay , it 's nothing to do with a taboo , there 's not some strange supernatural principle which says , in Savoy Street you drive on the other side , and if you do n't you 'll be struck down with a fever or ill luck or something like that . |
| 13 | Meantime , we 'll be getting down to the fine details . ’ |
| 14 | If you try to speak to any body you will be ignored , if you get in the way you 'll be knocked down in the wild scramble to get goods away to Paris , London , Brussels , and all the great centres of northern and eastern France . |
| 15 | * Greenpeace has announced a plan by which the 16 RBMK reactors could be shut down without the loss of net electricity capacity . |
| 16 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 17 | In the beginning , all carp were streamlined , torpedo-shaped fish , and any variation in girth relative to length ( apart from the difference between mature males and females ) could be put down to the quality of the food supply . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's success could be put down to the hard sell . |
| 20 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |
| 21 | Both these cars were fitted with Spencer track brakes , which could be wound down onto the rails when descending the hill . |
| 22 | A track wide enough for a tractor could be taken down to the road . |
| 23 | If Haser could be brought down by the Swiss for money-laundering , so the theory went , then he would have no reason to dig the hole he was in any deeper by embarrassing the CIA with gratuitous revelations about the agency 's arms deals with Saddam Hussein . |
| 24 | Pete went over to the wagon , and as he was taking out the inventory clipboard he explained that they 'd be going down to the boat house in Diane 's pickup truck . |
| 25 | Two : concentrated distilled gin may be watered down to the correct strength . |
| 26 | A multilateral treaty relationship may be broken down into a series of bilateral relationships . |
| 27 | This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones . |
| 28 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 29 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 30 | The privacy and identity that they possessed by living in family homes separated from other families , even when members of co-operatives , would be broken down under the new arrangements . |