Example sentences of "be [vb pp] down [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 2 | You should feel your centre of gravity to be located down through the hips . |
| 3 | Both these cars were fitted with Spencer track brakes , which could be wound down onto the rails when descending the hill . |
| 4 | Winter cereals are slow to establish , and must be sown earlier : this is apparently because there is a tendency for stubble or killed turf to be pushed down into the slits with the seed where it can create anaerobic conditions leading to the formation of toxic substances such as acetic acid . |
| 5 | They 're the only people who can keep anything open out in the sand , and not be closed down by the gangcults . |
| 6 | As Francis Bacon , the patron saint of the scientific method , wrote four centuries ago , ‘ The Universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of our understanding — rather the understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the Universe as it is discovered . ’ |
| 7 | However , a very restrictive express term which tries to prevent an ex-employee making use of mundane skills will be likely to be struck down by the courts as being in restraint of trade . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 10 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |
| 11 | The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends . |
| 12 | ‘ Can you bear to be held down by the bonds of marriage ? |