Example sentences of "[verb] down a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This laid down a future programme in which , among the many proposals , they called for Burma 's recognition within the family of nations and admission to the UN , and finally ‘ the establishment of a sovereign state in the very near future ’ . |
| 2 | 4.17 In Roberts v Johnstone [ 1988 ] 3 WLR 1247 the Court of Appeal laid down a general rule for assessing damages where a plaintiff has to purchase special accommodation . |
| 3 | It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development . |
| 4 | Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle . |
| 5 | In a far-reaching judgment , the Court of Appeals laid down a new test for the determination of the question of non-literal copyright infringement , that is , whether there has been an infringement of copyright in non-literal elements such as program structure . |
| 6 | A shift in the weather pattern , bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base . |
| 7 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 8 | The Barrington Sports Centre in the Algarve laid down a first-class pitch and I arranged a game for the Lord 's Taverners against a Portuguese Invitation XI to open up the ground . |
| 9 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 10 | The Opencast Coal Act 1958 laid down a special method of control operated by the Minister of Power ( later the Secretary of State for Energy ) . |
| 11 | After these tests the railway engineers laid down a maximum sideways acceleration equivalent to tilting the track by 4½ degrees . |
| 12 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 13 | ‘ Was the action taken by the British the proper thing to do ? ’ he asked down a crackling line from Buenos Aires to Woodward 's home in Surbiton , Surrey . |
| 14 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 15 | Their way led down a shallow incline between a row of abandoned warehouses , gaunt against the night sky . |
| 16 | She opened the door and gazed down a splendid vista of reception rooms that opened out one into the next , which Buzz had learned was typical of grand French houses . |
| 17 | Investment bankers say that grey markets allow short-selling that drives down a new issue 's price . |
| 18 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 19 | Leonora fought down a sudden rush of panic . |
| 20 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 21 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 22 | This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route ! |
| 23 | No , her right one 's hanging down a little bit . |
| 24 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 25 | A DRINK-DRIVER was jailed for just four months yesterday for mowing down a nine-year-old girl . |
| 26 | FORTY-FIVE people were killed last night when an excursion coach careered off a Spanish motorway and plunged down a steep embankment . |
| 27 | Leyshon and Stokle suffered horrific injuries when they were trapped in a burning car that plunged down a steep hillside near Birdlip in Gloucestershire in November two years ago . |
| 28 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
| 29 | When he saw Topaz climbing down a rough slope he brought Nero to a halt , an overwhelming surge of life running through him as if he were being born anew . |
| 30 | One night he was walking down a narrow , dark lane when suddenly , from behind a parked van , a huge man appeared . |