Example sentences of "[v-ing] down in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 2 | It tells the fascinating story of his summer of 1991 , which he spent flying a Stearman ( nicknamed Cannibal Queen ) around the USA , touching down in all 48 states of the continental United States . |
| 3 | They were all on edge , sometimes starting at nothing and again , lying down in any patch of long grass that offered . |
| 4 | Wimbledon fans will remember Castle 's fine court one performance in 1986 when he led Matts Wilander two sets to one before going down in five . |
| 5 | Since the major component of auditors ' costs — the salaries bill — is going down in many firms , it is not unnatural that the audit fees themselves are also reducing . |
| 6 | Once again , tolerance decreased and hostility increased quite markedly with age ; and ( with the exception of " the rather anomalous group who call themselves upper working class " ) the same was true going down in social class scales . |
| 7 | Hundreds of the creatures hovered in the air , swooping down in mock delight . |
| 8 | With a white , set face , she left the office and went straight to the ladies ' powder-room , breaking down in private and crying silent , bitter tears . |
| 9 | ‘ Recent months have shown a slowing down in new house starts throughout the country although refurbishment remains relatively stable , ’ says Chris Williams , Marketing Manager for Steetley Roofing Products . |
| 10 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 11 | I 'm not riding down in that ! |
| 12 | In 1978 , Gary Player had birdied the hole for a 64 to set the target , but Watson , needing a par to tie , hooked from the tee and his second shot scuttled off the left edge of the green from where there is little chance of getting down in two more . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , they have to hide the Cruise missiles somewhere , ’ I said , zipping up my fleece-lined leather jacket against the rain which had started coming down in ominous big spits . |
| 14 | By then , the rain had really started coming down in bucketsful . |
| 15 | Any use of nuclear weapons which resulted in significant fall-out coming down in neutral countries , or which in other ways violated neutral territory , would clearly fall foul of this provision . |
| 16 | ‘ When I 'm coming down in that parachute , I 'm feeling pretty nervous , but it 's wonderful the way I can feel the audience reacting warmly towards me . |
| 17 | The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop . |
| 18 | ‘ The main danger is ice , which coming down in large floes at the breaking up of a frost , is apt to accumulate at the pillars and exert enormous pressure thereon , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Waiting times are coming down in most places and staff report improved management and job satisfaction . |
| 20 | The first thing to do is get up as quickly as possible , so practise falling down in all directions and jumping up again as fast as you can — until the whole movement becomes automatic . |
| 21 | Cohesion through antonymy ( " oppositeness ' ) is also created in the text through the juxtaposition of the verb phrases 'stand up " and 'sitting down in adjacent sentences ( h ) and ( b ) . |
| 22 | And Letterworth had said that the deal was bogging down in that bloody stupid Olympic fracas and the Afghan mess , and that he did n't give a shit for politics , only for selling engines . |
| 23 | Nell pressed her arms and legs outwards , slithering down in short movements . |
| 24 | She 's probably sitting down in one of the cloakrooms . |
| 25 | I mentioned culture briefly earlier on er I 'd like to define that a little bit better by saying we want a user sitting down in any part of the world to be able to use the product which we develop and feel that it is an accounting application developed for their world and their market place . |
| 26 | For some reason this sentiment , which will presumably bring a mass of redundant typewriters and used notebooks bearing down in this direction , goes unmentioned in a report published today . |
| 27 | Eventually the desire continually to express concepts in terms of yet more " fundamental " ones led to Peano setting down in 1889 his symbolic and axiomatic description of the set of integers ( in terms of the undefined concepts : set , belongs to , zero , number , successor of ) . |
| 28 | They perpetuate the great romances and adventure stories of the Middle Ages , setting down in simple and unadorned sentences the songs and tales formerly carried by minstrel and troubadour ; tales of the Seven Champions of Christendom , the great Bevis of Southampton ( twice quoted above ) , with his steed Arundel and his invincible sword Morglay , Arthur and his company of the Round Table . |
| 29 | ‘ There will obviously be some slimming down in certain areas , which is regrettable but necessary . ’ |
| 30 | Once the crab had been shown by J. V. Thompson in his Zoological Researches ( 1828–34 ) to begin life as a little shrimp-like creature , and the barnacle perhaps more surprisingly to do the same before settling down in middle age , then the unity of plan in the group became more evident . |