Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 2 | Every time we 've had a Conservative administration waiting lists have gone down . |
| 3 | The crabs have climbed down the cliffs , for their eggs must be deposited directly into the sea if they are to hatch . |
| 4 | He said relationships between inspectors and schools have broken down several times . |
| 5 | There are many tales of madness overcoming travellers whose cars have broken down or whose camels have died . |
| 6 | The right to have an independent determination arises when negotiations between the parties have broken down ; but what if the parties have never tried to agree ? |
| 7 | And the bloke told me that twenty five corner shops have closed down in South Bank , which is a tiny area , in ten years . |
| 8 | She says that three shops have closed down since Christmas . |
| 9 | They involve men and women who have previously married and whose relationships have broken down . |
| 10 | Already , both the top Republican contenders have backed down from their original pledge to rescind Mr Florio 's tax increases the minute they take office . |
| 11 | Because our our months have come down to us from all sorts of historical reasons . |
| 12 | Erm well it makes sense but I 'm , I 'm glad you cos I mean my bonuses have gone down , I mean they have n't gone up then why is that ? |
| 13 | Well I 'm glad you should say that because the bonuses have gone down and that was a |
| 14 | And all too often , American companies get bogged down somewhere between invention and production . |
| 15 | No further work has taken place for a number of weeks , the barriers have fallen down , one of the warning lights has been thrown into the river and another has been thrown into the hedge several times . |
| 16 | It 's wrong to suggest all barriers have broken down . |
| 17 | Parents have bedded down outside Toys R Us at the MetroCentre in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , every Saturday night for the past six weeks , waiting for deliveries . |
| 18 | I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ? |
| 19 | And the effects have rippled down through the years into just about every local music scene in America , from the blues players to the hillbillies up in the mountains . ’ |
| 20 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |
| 21 | Hopefully when emotions have settled down , he might be able to make an offer to them when he 's released . |
| 22 | I had at Carrans Cort blown down 30 great ealmes which had in them 50 tunes of timber . ’ |
| 23 | So convinced were they of this ultimate victory , that ever since Christians have laid down their own lives on the line rather than renounce this hard-won faith . |
| 24 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 25 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 26 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 27 | But at least drugs stopping the development of full-blown AIDS have kept down the death toll in the West . |
| 28 | But since 1985 governments have cut down drastically on the amount they are spending on health . |
| 29 | The clothing and electronics factories have closed down in the Northeast , and the shifts specially designed for mothers , the part-time and twilight , were the first to go . |
| 30 | Psychologists have broken down ‘ real ’ jobs into a series of ‘ simple ’ components and have then devised tests for assessing these simpler components . |