Example sentences of "[verb] down in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
| 2 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 3 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 4 | It looked odds on to go to extra holes but unfortunate for Michael he three putted , Colm got down in two won 1up . |
| 5 | Although the sustained overall economic growth over the years 1987-89 brought the country to the verge of being given NIC ( newly industrialized country ) status , early forecasts predicted that gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth would slow down in 1990 to around 6.5 per cent , from an estimated 7.3-7.5 per cent in 1989 and from 8.7 per cent in 1988 . |
| 6 | Companies were also bound to match wages and conditions laid down in federal ( and sometimes state ) awards for their industry . |
| 7 | But otherwise the main principles of planning law , laid down in 1909 , were maintained : future development should accord with an approved town planning scheme ; compensation to be payable to landowners injuriously affected ; and betterment to be payable to a local authority when an increase in land values accrues as a result of planning proposals . |
| 8 | The said finished Products shall be purchased at the prices laid down in cl 5 and the said packaging materials at cost to the Supplier plus five percent . |
| 9 | It is uncertain whether the principle laid down in Regal ( Hastings ) covers this situation . |
| 10 | Stately horse chestnut trees guard the green , and that sacred piece of greensward , the cricket pitch , laid down in 1929 , is the perfect backdrop for the players in white clothing . |
| 11 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 12 | During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions . |
| 13 | The report says that the site does not meet the criterion laid down in 1976 by the Institute of Geological Sciences for the disposal of radioactive waste , which requires the hydrogeology of a site to be " simple and determinable " . |
| 14 | My view was that we should examine whether the money was reaching those that most needed it and whether the priorities of the system laid down in 1945 were still the same . |
| 15 | A State exercising a right by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party is bound to comply with any conditions laid down in that provision , or elsewhere in the treaty for the exercise of the right . |
| 16 | Our understanding of the vertical ( as opposed to the horizontal ) movements of the lithosphere during continental rupture is largely derived from the interpretation of the sediments laid down in passive margin basins . |
| 17 | From 1604 onwards , Otho Nicholson and other commissioners inquired into ‘ assart lands ’ which had been brought into cultivation within the ancient Forest bounds laid down in 1300 . |
| 18 | The importance of such rights , and the feeling that they were fundamental to the workings of society , is reflected in the fact that when one ruler ceded territory to another it was usually defined in terms of jurisdictions and local administrative divisions ( on the French frontiers , for example , baillages , prévotés , sénéchaussées or communes ) and not , as would now be the case , in those of lines laid down in precise geographical terms and illustrated by a map . |
| 19 | If people accept that they are governed not only by explicit rules laid down in past political decisions but by whatever other standards flow from the principles these decisions assume , then the set of recognized public standards can expand and contract organically , as people become more sophisticated in sensing and exploring what these principles require in new circumstances , without the need for detailed legislation or adjudication on each possible point of conflict . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action he takes to enforce procedures laid down in national health service circular No. 1975 ( GEN ) 46 . |
| 21 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 22 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 23 | If you deviate substantially and importantly from the conditions laid down in this letter of engagement , we will be free to terminate the engagement by immediate notice at any time and to engage additional and/or alternative directors to perform some or all of the functions set out here . |
| 24 | The job description shall be consistent with the contractual duties laid down in this agreement . |
| 25 | ( I ) The desirability of contesting the constituency for parliament shall be considered by the Executive Committee of this party in consultation with the National Executive Committee or its officers prior to the procedure laid down in this clause being set in motion . |
| 26 | The standard of care laid down in this case has been doubted in subsequent cases . |
| 27 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
| 28 | Regulations laid down in 1865 made life significantly easier for the bulk of the press , reducing pre-publication censorship and committing the authorities to refer most alleged offences to the courts . |
| 29 | The 1988 Act has made fundamental alterations to the power structure of the education system laid down in 1944 . |
| 30 | The 1947 Electricity Act laid down in some detail procedures for matters such as capital authorisations from the Ministry and the relative spheres of interest of Central Authority and Area Boards , but on the major questions of business policy the industry had a relatively free hand , subject only to a requirement to consult the Minister on matters of broad policy . |