Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , part of that under-reporting comes down to the fear of victimisation . |
| 2 | However , Austria has already submitted its request for full membership of the EC and this might be followed by Norway and Sweden if the attempt to negotiate a wider West European unity breaks down . |
| 3 | In division by 10 each figure moves down in place value while the decimal point stays in place . |
| 4 | A moaning wind frisks down the coast , kicking up a roaming layer of top-sand in its wake . |
| 5 | the moon in its sterilised light goes down . |
| 6 | She 's resigned to spending this Christmas on her own … but says she wo n't let the matter rest until British Rail backs down . |
| 7 | He continued : " This experience boils down to one point : we must integrate the fundamental principles of Marxism with the concrete realities of the Chinese revolution and national development and keep to our own road . " |
| 8 | Lepage performs some of the text from this letter , and with dizzying theatrical vertigo tumbles down the skyscraper blocks projected onto the screen behind him . |
| 9 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 10 | This study sets down some navigation buoys for the course between the Scylla of growing research costs , and the Charybdis of cuts in national science budgets . |
| 11 | The Old Testament lays down the fundamentals of a Christian social ethic in three major ways . |
| 12 | But sometimes , this friendship breaks down , usually through the stupidity of the human partner . |
| 13 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |
| 14 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 15 | I 'm just going to park the car well away from the house , just in case this wind brings down any of the roof . ’ |
| 16 | After her act another blonde in black , thigh length leather boots , studded belt , bra and pants strutted onto the stage , removed her top and stepped up to the front row , where the Koreans stuffed dollar notes down the front of her knickers . |
| 17 | This Act lays down the matters to be stated , and reports to be set out , in a prospectus issued when an offer or invitation is being made to the public . |
| 18 | A British gunner shoots down enemy aircraft attacking his post … |
| 19 | This stream passes down a wooded ravine with no access , steps having to be retraced to the Old Ing road . |
| 20 | But this is n't the only way in which dietary fibre slows down eating . |
| 21 | Children are often socially rewarded for playing with toys of the appropriate gender , and this process lays down the basis of future adult pleasure in relation to similar objects — full-size washing machines , cookers and dustpan and brush sets . |
| 22 | Today , as the system or planned economy and social security breaks down , once again — the situation is analogous — language acts as a substitute for factors of integration in a disintegrating society . |
| 23 | Many will see this paper as a fundamental attack on the NHS , a means by which a free service slides down the slippery slope of privatisation . |
| 24 | If the Broken Drum burns down . |
| 25 | If implantation of a fertilized egg does not occur , this lining breaks down and is expelled from the uterus . |
| 26 | However , this correlation breaks down when comparing intervals where one site has significant LDO and another has none . |
| 27 | This means that the already very sleek 1 inch thickness on the top edge slims down to an amazing ″ at its thinnest point . |
| 28 | Here at Buscot it has widened out again , the fair Isis , and the walled garden of the Old Parsonage stretches down to meet it , full of box hedged paths , damask and china roses , with clematis climbing everywhere and Kiftsgate roses in the apple trees . |
| 29 | The top growth dies down completely in winter . |
| 30 | A mile to the south-east of the summit another path leads down to Ennerdale along the side of Loft Beck . |