Example sentences of "[verb] down by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sit down by the fire and tell me all about it . ’ |
| 2 | You sit down by the fire , you 're wet and cold . |
| 3 | Sir George drew the curtains , and motioned Roland and Maud to sit down by the fire , in the velvet chairs . |
| 4 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 5 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 6 | Crilly sits down by the window and opens a gardening magazine . |
| 7 | He also saw that if the parties did not approve of a rule laid down by a court — a ‘ certain rule ’ — they could choose to vary it by contract . |
| 8 | In the context of the present case , however , it was not necessary to determine whether there were any conceivable circumstances in which Community law might affect rules in that sphere laid down by a member state . |
| 9 | The Association would regard the professional responsibilities of the librarian to include full discretion over the acquisitions made by the library service within the terms of the general guidelines laid down by an employer : in the case of public libraries these guidelines should not be expected to allow local censorship . |
| 10 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |
| 11 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
| 12 | Your council can also choose to extend these periods of time or set new classes of property other than the one laid down by the Government . |
| 13 | Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity . |
| 14 | This does not mean that today 's choreographers need follow the conventions laid down by the Renaissance scholars who were more interested in the physical ability and behaviour of courtiers . |
| 15 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 16 | Chassis details follow the broad principles laid down by the Turbo R , with three-stage electronically controlled dampers serving what is basically a MacPherson strut front and semi-trailing arm rear suspension geometry . |
| 17 | The brief for the architects , Hunt Thompson Associates , from their housing association client , was to explore the suitability of the building for conversion into flats , subject to the standards and cost limits laid down by the Housing Corporation and the Department of the Environment . |
| 18 | But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself . |
| 19 | If he does cause a byelection , he will face the charge that he is not prepared to play by the rules laid down by the party conference . |
| 20 | The personal estate was distributed in accordance with rules laid down by the Statutes of Distribution of Charles II 's and James II's reigns . |
| 21 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 22 | They were to use a scale of marking laid down by the Forest Court of Attachment in 1790 — that is , one horse or two cows for each £4 per annum rent paid by the commoner , and one horse or two cows ‘ for every poor cottager having a family and right of commoning ’ . |
| 23 | There is serious doubt about whether Italy can achieve the norms laid down by the Maastricht Treaty , and qualify for membership of the European Community single market next year and full monetary union by 1997 or later . |
| 24 | This removes any realistic prospect of a government introducing severe economic reforms to reduce Italy 's huge public debt to fulfil norms for the EC single market laid down by the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 25 | This function is primarily undertaken in a school ( within the parameters laid down by the LEA ) by the governors , the headteacher and the deputies . |
| 26 | In many Latin American countries teachers lack the freedom to devise and organise their own teaching plans , Peru being one of the few exceptions ( and even here there is a general curriculum laid down by the ministry ) . |
| 27 | British Nuclear Fuels has always denied that its operations cause the sort of dangers alleged by its critics , and affirmed that its discharges and exposure levels are kept within the limits laid down by the regulatory authorities . |
| 28 | Other classes — peasants and now workers — were accepted only on the terms laid down by the leaders . |
| 29 | As David Trippier from the Department of the Environment said , this is two-and-a-half years ahead of the schedule laid down by the Montreal protocol — and the government would have liked it even faster . |
| 30 | If you are a small business which meets certain criteria laid down by the Department of Employment , the Scheme can enable you to acquire finance otherwise denied to you . |