Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 2 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 3 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 4 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 5 | ‘ Our only escape would be to climb down the face of the rock ; but … ’ her eyes rested on Adam ’ … your brother could not do it , mortal . |
| 6 | A solution to this can be to cut down the skeg , as this provides the resistance at the back of the board . |
| 7 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 8 | If you were to come down the Cowley Road — I invite you to come down and and come and see the situation , because , you know , if I said okay anyone can smoke or drink in the church or churchyard in Saint Mary and John , the building would be full , not full literally , but we 'd have people all day in there smoking and drinking and there would be nowhere quiet for people to pray . |
| 9 | The Economics Minister , Juergen Moelleman , has called for Western states to provide urgent aid to make ex-Soviet plants safe , with the priority being to shut down the RBMKs . |
| 10 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 11 | No when we come out of Bet 's to go down the garage . |
| 12 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 13 | In serious cases the aim is to shut down the system safely . |
| 14 | Their aim is to keep down the price of meal ! ’ |
| 15 | Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat . |
| 16 | A natural tendency in times of recession is to batten down the hatches and look after our own needs , but as we sold raffle tickets in aid of our livestock projects in Uganda , people at the Royal certainly supported our scheme with cheerful generosity . |
| 17 | The objective this time is to shift down the injections line or to shift up the withdrawals line by the full amount of the inflationary gap . |
| 18 | Then , having established a fairly exact area , the next step is to turn down the receiver volume so that you are able to pinpoint the precise spot where the receiver is immediately above the ferret . |
| 19 | The instinct of Eva 's husband , Bee , is to tone down the services and comply with the law . |
| 20 | An important task of the project manager is to break down the project into independent activities , to specify what shall be done and when the work must be finished , and to make agreements with functional managers about their contributions . |
| 21 | Counsel 's aim is to break down the alibi by asking unexpected questions and so getting contradictory answers from the two defendants . |
| 22 | The very difficult challenge is to break down the Market Focus concept into components which can reach every individual on the shop floor and in every function . |
| 23 | Those whose task it is to lay down the law on matters of ethics and morality need to ensure that their views are based on a wide knowledge of human institutions and their history . |
| 24 | The second is to lay down the ground-rules for generalizing from one set of conditions to another , for example , from the laboratory to the real world . |
| 25 | They have confirmed that one option under consideration is to close down the site . |
| 26 | No no no what what Can I can I just say well I 'm What what the treasurer of an event like this needs to do is to note down the source of the cash he receives , to note where it 's coming from different products , how much is being received from that |
| 27 | Thus , in some cases where the covenant is all , or substantially all , the consideration , a consequence of a finding of unreasonableness is to strike down the whole contract . |
| 28 | The correct approach here is to cut down the obligation to perform undertaken under the contract , rather than attempt to impose an exemption clause covering the liability for a breach committed . |
| 29 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 30 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |