Example sentences of "down by the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other restrictions are less justifiable : the routine exclusion of the media from " in chambers " hearings relating to property in divorce cases , to bail applications in Crown Courts , and to applications for injunctions and eviction orders in the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court are breaches of the " open justice " principle which may in due course be struck down by the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 2 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 3 | Regions in which the density was slightly higher than average would have had their expansion slowed down by the gravitational attraction of the extra mass . |
| 4 | Kilmarnock went down by the only goal of the game at Dumbarton , where several hundred fans were evacuated from the main stand just minutes before the game was due to start . |
| 5 | Both the trial judge and the Court of Appeal applied the law laid down by the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division in Reg. v. Commissioner for Local Administration , Ex parte Croydon London Borough Council [ 1989 ] 1 All E.R. |
| 6 | Development in the Third World has stalled , ground down by the relentless wheels of the global economic machine . |
| 7 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 8 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 9 | I have always found that I can fill in easily enough with the graft — and no one wants to be weighed down by the sheer weight of gear to be carried around . |
| 10 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 11 | After which the assembled athletes demolished an excellent buffet washed down by the occasional glass of lemonade … . |
| 12 | The Acts include a general clause which says that the corporation should keep proper accounting records and should present its accounts in a form laid down by the relevant Secretary of State . |
| 13 | But even he was being worn down by the uneventful march of days . |
| 14 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 15 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
| 16 | In appropriately ‘ watery ’ metaphors , Mr Wallace spoke of the Government 's economic strategy in Scotland ‘ sinking beneath the waves , ’ and Mr Mullin expressed concern that ‘ Scotland is being dragged down by the sinking ship of the UK ’ . |
| 17 | Scotland is being dragged down by the sinking ship of the UK . ’ |