Example sentences of "down [prep] the [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm Edwards , British Coal 's commercial director , told an electricity conference in London that the corporation was prepared to enter supply deals lasting eight years — the same period set down for the bulk of initial contracts between privatised electricity generators and distribution companies . |
| 2 | By then it was blowing a full gale from the west , the wind slamming down off the mountains with katabatic blasts that hammered the luminous white of the water with such fury that it splayed out like shot , a reminder that the heights west of the port were almost six hundred metres high , the first ski-run only eight kilometres away by car . |
| 3 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 4 | On down between the lines of parked aircraft they went , like Nelson 's battleships at Trafalgar , firing broadsides to left and right . |
| 5 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 6 | Inflation will come down through the use of high interest rates , as it has in the past . |
| 7 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 8 | What is clear is that the mechanics of the process , that is , the breaking down of the tissue into discrete blocks , involves an increase in adhesion between the cells in each somite . |
| 9 | The other came down near the village of Upper Heyford , killing its two crew members . |
| 10 | Medium and long leys are put down with the object of increasing grassland production , extending the growing season and improving the nutritional quality of the herbage . |
| 11 | There were incredible scenes with people shouting ‘ shame ’ and ‘ down with the empire of red fascism ’ . |
| 12 | Later , the processes slow down with the shift to increased differentiation with a rapid fall in mitotic index in both embryo and fetal membranes after day 14 , thus it becomes difficult to obtain chromosome preparations from the later stages , particularly shortly preceding birth . |
| 13 | The secret meeting organised by MPs Tim Devlin and Michael Bates , to which they invited selected headteachers to discuss opting out , drags the education debate down into the gutter of political furtiveness and secrecy . |
| 14 | They stared down into the pit in horrified fascination . |
| 15 | The dark rim around the bright mound is artefactual : the coverslip has pressed the top of the mound down into the plane of optical section and thereby pushed down the epidermis around the foot of the mound below that plane . |
| 16 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 17 | " And how often did you get good roast beef like this down at Sir Gregory 's , Miss Jennifer ? " he asked , helping himself to a generous dollop of honey and making patterns with it as it streamed down onto the slab of red meat on his plate . |
| 18 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 19 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 20 | Let us get it down from the shelf for close scrutiny . |
| 21 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 22 | It is not our central concern as Christians to get bogged down in the minutiae of academic arguments concerning the merits and demerits of modernity . |
| 23 | No British team have ever come back from three goals down in the history of European competition . |
| 24 | The case was heard by an exceptionally unconventional judge , but one of sound common sense , Mr Justice Caulfield , who more recently found fame in his unorthodox but equally commonsensical summing-up in the Jeffrey Archer action , where his description of Mrs Archer as ‘ fragrant ’ , no doubt causing great embarrassment to the lady , will go down in the history of judicial extravagance . |
| 25 | Street vendors called out the merits of their wares , shouting each other down in the hope of attracting customers from the goodwives who were out doing the morning marketing . |
| 26 | They had also been floating in a jar of pickle in the curiobiological museum down in the cellars of Unseen University , since live salamanders were extinct around the Circle Sea . |
| 27 | They seem likely to become bogged down in the intricacies of Swiss banking and Egyptian commerce . |
| 28 | Boyz N the Hood The neighbourhood in question is South Central Los Angeles , a curious half-ghetto half-Brookside with Uzis , where Tre ( Cuba Gooding Jr ) and Ricky ( Morris Chestnut ) stand at a crossroads : will they make it to college and become middle class or be gunned down in the crossfire between rival gangs ? |
| 29 | Simple arithmetic told us that even if we gained the summit we would be stumbling back down in the dark like late cinema-goers trying to find their seats . |
| 30 | Kuhn insists that there is more to a paradigm that can be explicitly laid down in the form of explicit rules and directions . |