Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they approval seeking , supportive or a put down ( as in ‘ you 're not really going to wear that , are you ? |
| 2 | ‘ But those members of the group who joined the club are still very welcome to use the premises for a cup of tea or a sit down , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The Health & Safety Executive , however , maintained that the HSC 's comprehensive guidelines were adequate and that the laying down of rigid prescriptive standards was impossible given the diversity of sizes and types of pool . |
| 4 | His view was that the breaking down of large organizations was delayed only by the political power of European governments and workers ' movements . |
| 5 | If we pursue the doctrine of the orogeny/regression couple , then we must also expect the corollary that the wearing down of mountain ranges and the spread of continents by marginal sedimentation must lead to widespread transgressions . |
| 6 | In short a process of levelling up rather than the levelling down anticipated by many critics of comprehensive provision . |
| 7 | Among the projects carried out were the creation of two folk museums , the laying out of public parks and gardens ; a nature trail ; a children 's playground ; the restoration of an old ‘ Norse ’ mill , and the laying down of a car park for a small craft shop . |
| 8 | 120 ) , commitments to improving living and working conditions ( Arts 117 and 118 ) , and the laying down of the general principles for implementing a common vocational training policy ( Art . |
| 9 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 10 | We have to get the bruising out and the swelling down and if we do that he will be all right . |
| 11 | I just , Birmingham Region , I think the delegate who came up second about long service ambulance staff and the going down . |
| 12 | This in turn explains why the infinitive can evoke both the wide range of all possible realizers ( as in To visit the poor is a Christian obligation ) and the narrowing down of this range to one particular spatial support ( for instance , to the speaker as in Oh to be in England … ) . |
| 13 | Last year 's figures include the IRA Teebane massacre in Co Tyrone , the UFF slaughter at Sean Graham 's bookmakers on Belfast 's Ormeau Road , and the gunning down of three people at Sinn Fein 's Belfast headquarters by rogue cop Alan Moore . |
| 14 | But , if the glide path is being held — apparently satisfactorily — and the laid down height is reached without any signal from the marker , then there is the possibility that the glide path signal is faulty , or that the altimeter setting is wrong . |
| 15 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 16 | No we 're having a cup of tea and a sit down . |
| 17 | The immediate cause was a mountain of surplus coal , generated by two mild winters and a slowing down of economic growth : coal stocks had quadrupled from 7 to 31 million tons since 1957 . |
| 18 | If the supply of vitamins and mineral in the diet is inadequate , this will result in changes in body chemistry , and a slowing down or altering of the body 's metabolism , usually with some deterioration in body fitness or health . |
| 19 | Sepia is a remedy which has a symptom picture of tiredness , weakness and a dragging down sensation , and often an actual prolapse . |
| 20 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 21 | During 1988 there was considerable uncertainty as to whether a slowing down of spending was taking place . |
| 22 | Heads of different divisions may informally set their own plan which is not moving in the same direction as the handed down plan to which they pay lip service . |
| 23 | I mean he 'd he 'd use so often the experience of the people who were listening , so when a went down to , they all knew what he was talking about . |