Example sentences of "[noun] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disadvantage of share schemes is , Mr Luder says , that ‘ it is all very well my being an employee of a subsidiary five tiers down of some major plc , and their saying ‘ Here is a dollar for a share option and you will be motivated if the share price rises ’ , but there is no direct link between cause and effect' . |
| 2 | In pure strength , apart from their flexibility , the lashings , sewings and bindings used by primitive peoples , and by seamen down to recent times , are more efficient than metal fastenings , indeed sledges are still made in this way . |
| 3 | Heather puts the loss of the money down to pure bad luck . |
| 4 | ‘ Owners complain about low prize money but there is no point in our executive putting up £25,000 with prize money down to fourth for a non-sponsored race if they wo n't support it . |
| 5 | It contains short biographies of many thousands of distinguished British and English people from the earliest of recorded times down to 1960 . |
| 6 | But then she did n't usually sleep so soundly out of doors , and she put her reactions down to recent stress . |
| 7 | Nadobenko , although a previous stage winner , had started the final stage almost seven minutes down on Lillywhite overall . |
| 8 | They also improved their risk factors — an 8 per cent fall in blood pressure , serum cholesterol down by 3 per cent and nearly a third giving up smoking . |
| 9 | With visibility down to 25 yards in places , three motorists were killed in the M1 in Derbyshire . |
| 10 | With visibility down to 15 yards , rescue teams struggled to reach the man , but a doctor pronounced him dead . |
| 11 | The river current swept Trent down between Golden Girl 's twin hulls . |
| 12 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
| 13 | The BGS publishes a ‘ Catalogue of Printed Maps ’ which lists the availability of maps down to 1:25 000 scale . |
| 14 | With regard to Eadmer 's emphasis on the negotiations between the king and the pope , it is important to remember that , although the material for the Historia Novorum down to 1100 was collected in Anselm 's lifetime , the final text belongs to the years after Anselm 's death . |
| 15 | The AND gate output therefore becomes LOW and the integrator ramps down to zero . |
| 16 | A government deal to bring hours down to 83 hours a week was agreed last June … but nothing 's happened yet . |
| 17 | Er we got the hours down to eventually we got the hours down to forty four . |
| 18 | They say things are better for the bairns now since they brought the hours down to ten , but some of the pigs get over that . |
| 19 | Brig Cumming said a key element of the plan was to ‘ picket the people ’ in other words to set up communications lines so that all levels of the factions from top commanders down to local warlords and the actual troops manning barricades were aware of the nature of the convoys and when they were planned to pass through a specific area . |
| 20 | Richard Gere 's wife let her hair down for free at a New York AIDS benefit show . |
| 21 | First violin Michael Thomas explains in the liner notes that in the early seventies they would often let their hair down in private , arranging and playing pieces from Joplin to the Beatles and Brubeck purely for fun . |
| 22 | It was a foursome in Pepe 's on Saturday , and Shelley let her hair down in more ways than one , dancing vigorously with the hunky Carlos , while Rosie and her good-looking little Francisco sat in the shadows , their heads close together . |
| 23 | Even at the height of NEP prosperity in 1926 , considerable resistance to central patterns and instructions was to linger on the further one got away from Moscow down through all the provincial levels , but in 1922 strong fears of such resistance provoked a siege psychology among those party officials located nearest to the grass roots . |
| 24 | As an economic system , Europe , in spite of its internal contrasts and competition , remained a unity down to 1914 . |
| 25 | Eventually the SIB narrowed their investigations down to two electricians with pocket knives , Larry and one other . |
| 26 | Mother took one tiny look down at all the people looking up — made a long , low moaning noise and fled from the box never to return . |
| 27 | Once level with deserted stone croft down on left , take small gate on left ( the second passed ) down to croft ( d ) , by which turn right on track and follow for 2 miles ( e ) . |
| 28 | Maitre Tajan will be bringing the gavel down on two attractive paintings from the Polo collection in this sale of Old Masters . |
| 29 | SUITABLE FOR PITCHES DOWN TO 10 DEGREES |
| 30 | Breaking the budget down into shorter periods facilitates a more effective control device . |