Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was wild countryside , steep hills and grassy plateaux , scarred and gashed by steel-grey rocks and rapid , frothing rivers which tumbled down the hillside . |
| 2 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 3 | L 20 , p. 19 ) , which laid down the principle of equal access to fishing grounds ; ( b ) the thirtieth recital in the Preamble to Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3796/81 on the common organisation of the market in fishery products ( Official Journal 1981 No . |
| 4 | The SLORC issued a statement on July 27 which laid down the powers and responsibilities of the newly elected People 's Assembly , but gave no indication as to when it would be allowed to convene . |
| 5 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 6 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 7 | Their arguments were deliberately couched in language which played down the revolutionary implications of the legislation and was designed to convince doubters that no changes of any real significance were taking place . |
| 8 | Studying the map back at the motor cycle , he saw that it had once carried what was now that branch of the Makaa River which flowed down the valley below the track up to the President 's cabin . |
| 9 | Among the immigrant Irish , ‘ wakes ’ were exploited as a means of bringing in contributions , some of which vanished down the throats of relatives and friends in need of consolation . |
| 10 | short winter days , with stock outside and bad weather which slowed down the feeding process ; |
| 11 | Similar provisions appear in international conventions which lay down the terms of contracts for international carriage of goods . |
| 12 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 13 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 14 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 15 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 16 | The FMS was active in the protest movement which brought down the Lemus regime ( 1956–60 ) but , in common with many other groups , it became progressively disillusioned by the perpetual electoral frauds . |
| 17 | The first FMLN announcement stated that one of the advisers had died instantly and the others within minutes from their injuries ; however , a further statement on Jan. 9 noted that two members of the unit which brought down the helicopter had been arrested on charges of murdering wounded prisoners of war , and that they would be dealt with according to " war justice " if found guilty . |
| 18 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
| 19 | The financial crisis which brought down the Labour government caused a rapid increase in the cost of unemployment assistance , an increase which pre-Keynesian economic theory held to be highly undesirable . |
| 20 | Deliberately , Madeleine had selected a dress to wear which buttoned down the front to the waist . |
| 21 | The news sent shivers through financial markets which marked down the lira to five-month lows around 960 to the mark while bonds also lost ground . |
| 22 | They turned into the dining room , and gasped at the long row of glowing candles which stretched down the table to the further limits of vision . |
| 23 | THE captain of the USS Vincennes , which shot down the Iranian airbus , has been awarded a medal for ‘ exceptionally meritorious conduct ’ . |
| 24 | This eruption could as well be termed Peleean as Plinian , for part of the force of the great eruption of 1956 was expended in powerful nuees which swept down the flanks of the volcano with terrific force . |
| 25 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |