Example sentences of "be [adv] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It you are constantly down in the dumps over the price of fleecewear then this may be the answer to your prayers . |
| 2 | We 're just down for the weekend to air the place out and run the heating . |
| 3 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 4 | Half the lines are still down since the war . |
| 5 | As an experiment , using the currently available zone codes from the recogniser , if the recogniser 's zone code of a candidate word does not match the shape code of the word , the confidence in the candidate word can be reduced , thus it will be further down in the rank ordered list of candidate words . |
| 6 | erm That 'll be more down to the chairman than myself , he 'll put you more in line with that . |
| 7 | I 'm now down to the weight my doctor said I should be . |
| 8 | The catarrhal state may be lower down in the trachea which becomes extremely sore from much coughing for days and weeks , again is worse ( < ) morning and evening , a rattling , wheezing , barking cough in an oversensitive , chilly patient . |
| 9 | The most notable conditions were low down in the West , particularly in the Glencoe area , where every stream formed a mini icefall and icy crags like Beinn Udlaidh were in excellent condition . |
| 10 | ‘ When I left you last night you were positively down in the dumps ; today you 're — you 're … ’ she made a helpless gesture with her hands , searching for the right adjective ‘ … you 're sizzling ! |
| 11 | And , when it comes to services , consumers are quite unanimous that quality is mostly down to the staff and how they behave with customers . |
| 12 | I know which it is but it 's somewhere down in the corner where your brother used to live that corner down there Harry somewhere down there . |
| 13 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 14 | That erm , made me laugh because he said to his secretary erm you know , I I honestly do n't think your time is she is so down in the mouth . |
| 15 | ‘ Everyone 's so down in the dumps and poor . |
| 16 | Layouts such as this seem to completely polarise opinion , and the decision is obviously down to the individual . |
| 17 | The ski resort as such is not down in the valley at all , would that it were ; rather , it is perched to devastatingly conspicuous effect on the side of a mountain to the west , up to which you can go either by car along a new road or by cable-car from the centre of Saint-Lary . |
| 18 | he 's just down to the beach |
| 19 | ‘ It 's just down to the fact that they make extremely good records . |
| 20 | And that 's just down in the library is that it ? |
| 21 | That 's not down to the area . |
| 22 | To the courts , to the magistrates , remember that man , the judge , it 's all down to him and the jury , it 's not down to the police . |
| 23 | But , at the end of the day , it is still down to the individual to make sure that he or she is getting the best deal possible . |
| 24 | In 1988 women 's average gross hourly earnings represented 74.9 per cent of men 's earnings , which is slightly down on the peak of 75.5 per cent in 1977 but is an improvement on the 1985 figure of 73.9 per cent . |
| 25 | Colour is also down to the individual . |
| 26 | Although marketing is done centrally , the success of a franchise is also down to the efforts of the franchisee in drumming up business . |
| 27 | The Bundesbank 's refusal to cut German interest rates pushed the pound to a new low of two marks , forty-three and it 's also down against the dollar at one , seventy-one . |
| 28 | It 's really down to the trade not to order them . |
| 29 | We are introduced to both characters at the beginning of each book and as we find out more about them , it 's not that they are rude offensive children , it 's purely down to the innocence that all children have at that age . |
| 30 | That it does is mainly down to the script . |