Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] down [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 2 | The same writer recommended giving glasshouse room to a few hedgehogs , ideal for keeping down woodlice . |
| 3 | Of course you are absolutely right to emphasise the crucial importance of bringing down inflation ; the current deep recession will achieve this . |
| 4 | The children do not make a direct transition from structured signs into English written grammar ; in fact , they rely on structures in ASL they already know , and this forms the basis of their task solution of writing down English from sign users . |
| 5 | The small 6x3in plate was handy around corners and doorways , and used with sponge and bonnet , made light work of cleaning down silk emulsioned bathroom walls prior to repainting . |
| 6 | The importance of damping down retaliation is dramatized by the following memoir by a British ( as if the first sentence left us in any doubt ) officer : |
| 7 | Shortly afterwards he identified inflation as , ‘ Public Enemy Number One ’ and urged a tax increase upon congress as a way of damping down consumer spending . |
| 8 | Thus , rather than reinforcing stereotypical responses to the unfamiliar faces around , student living can be one of the most hopeful ways of breaking down prejudice . |
| 9 | Does he agree that one of the best ways of breaking down violence and lessening the sectarian divide is to encourage enterprise and initiative ? |
| 10 | Effective though it proved , the device of holding down output in the hope of driving up prices brought with it problems not to be found in any economics textbook : the global output ceiling , if set realistically in relation to demand , can easily prove too small to be divided amicably . |
| 11 | The great floods that occurred in Thailand in November 1988 cost many lives and alerted the government to the serious effect of cutting down rainforest . |
| 12 | This practice has the merit of cutting down expense as well as of checking one 's primitive barbaric instincts . |
| 13 | The costs of shutting down production lines , for example , as a result of German environment protection regulations and current or anticipated levies , could not be passed on . |
| 14 | The celebrations surrounding the 25th anniversary of the accession of the Queen were used as means of playing down class differences and uniting the country around slogans like ‘ coats off for Britain ’ . |
| 15 | Yeah it comes on , a comes on and then it shuts down so it 's some sort of shut down fault . |
| 16 | One possible explanation is that because early growth exerts a greater effect on reproductive success in males than females ( see above ) , selection favours increased investment by young males in growth at the expense of laying down body fat to assure survival during periods of food shortage . |
| 17 | In social welfare , Vogel touched on a very topical issue when he praised the advantages of a minimal welfare state for holding down tax levels and maximizing individual incentives . |
| 18 | It may seem an unlikely way to make a living … but Heather Gorringe is a worm farmer.She sells 20,000 worms a week from her farm in Herefordshire … and it seems people ca n't get enough of these wriggly creatures.They 're ideal for breaking down compost … and can even convert rubbish dumps into healthy agricultural land : |
| 19 | In large surf it is sometimes worth slowing down ad letting a large wave pass before attempting the gybe . |
| 20 | If direct on-line storage is limited , it may be worth accepting more frequent reorganizations as the price for cutting down overflow space . |
| 21 | For cutting down grass and weeds around tree trunks , buildings and other odd places as well as trimming overgrown lawn edged . |
| 22 | The Regional Council is engaged in drawing down Capital grant assistance under RECHAR and mainstream ERDF programmes . |
| 23 | TROUBLED John Major was accused yesterday of having ‘ little confidence ’ in keeping down interest rates — because he 's taken out a cheap FIXED mortgage . |
| 24 | The examiner is impatient to see you answering the problems , and he may even ignore altogether anything you write before writing down figure ( i ) . |
| 25 | If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally . |
| 26 | Most firms are still organised to exploit the efficiencies to be gained from breaking down work into a sequence of specialised tasks , an approach first described by Adam Smith in his famous account of production in a pin factory . |
| 27 | Nobody 's interested in laying down wine for the future , when they 're dead : instead they 're all drinking up what 's been in the cellar for decades . |
| 28 | But three days later when he managed to get away without anyone suspecting his real purpose in skimming down south , and Jezrael lay weakly fretting until he got back , Ember could only whisper , ‘ The Company must have got him . |
| 29 | In strict legal terms , the letter of the 1976 law was being followed in 1978 , but the Act had not produced the results in dampening down press publicity in the way that had been hoped . |
| 30 | In striking down part of a 1983 law designed to shield rape victims from intrusive questioning about their past , the court ruled by seven to two that the law had rendered inadmissible evidence which could be essential to the constitutional right to the accused to receive a fair trial . |