Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , in essence this is a political decision , but it would be naive to play down the extent to which this and other aspects of the policy agenda is shaped by officials . |
| 2 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 3 | It was a relief to be able to put down the suitcase . |
| 4 | ‘ A few people would lose their hands to begin with — but very soon we would be able to cut down the size of our police forces by at least 50 per cent . |
| 5 | By thinking carefully about the answer you should be able to narrow down the essence of your case to a single sentence , and a short one at that . |
| 6 | An Int test ( Cryptography +10 ) allows these names to be decoded ; there are no exact addresses , but an entry such as ‘ Schwenninger of N. , four unbaptised infants ’ could be enough to track down the supplier in Nuln . |
| 7 | All these signals would be sufficient to slow down the expansion of Dept . |