Example sentences of "[to-vb] down on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 2 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 3 | Consultants are bound to fall down on one of these . ’ |
| 4 | Chinese to bear down on environmental lawbreakers |
| 5 | Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension . |
| 6 | job to get out the house for a little while and she usually gets granny up , cos granny have to come down on one of those chairs . |
| 7 | It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this . |
| 8 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 9 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 10 | Not wishing to come down on either side , the planners say it 's a nice fence but high fences near roads need permission . |
| 11 | If necessary more than five trials can be used if the level of anxiety fails to come down on any one specific target . |
| 12 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 13 | How to crack down on increasing levels of vandalism and the emergence of street gangs in the area will be decided today at a special meeting of the council 's Police Liaison Committee . |
| 14 | Labour leaders yesterday urged Prime Minister Mr Major to crack down on economic sanctions with Serbia . |
| 15 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 16 | Restoration of the Asylum Bill , designed to crack down on bogus refugees . |
| 17 | MORTGAGE lenders sparked a storm yesterday by launching a campaign to crack down on crooked lawyers who run off with £20 million a year . |
| 18 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 19 | He says the force has started to crack down on rural violence and he blamed much of the trouble on young people drinking too much . |
| 20 | LANCASHIRE have pledged to crack down on foulmouthed fans . |
| 21 | The USGA have made clear their intention to crack down on slow play at Baltusrol and Langer believes he is not one of the worst offenders . |
| 22 | Kurds in Turkey say they have been tortured and repressed in a bloody campaign by the government to crack down on separatist guerrillas fighting for an independent Kurdistan . |
| 23 | ‘ Ninety-nine percent of vampires are real nice people , ’ he said , ‘ But we want to crack down on phoney vampires who are getting us a bad name . ’ |
| 24 | The Royal Society for Nature Conservation this week launched a campaign to crack down on so-called ‘ thirsty buildings ’ to make more water available for rivers and wetlands . |
| 25 | Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy , who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon ! |
| 26 | Almost all aspects of life suffered under martial law which was used by consecutive governments to ban large public meetings and to crack down on any political groups and political parties working underground . |
| 27 | Since the substances used are often freely on sale for legitimate purposes , it is hard to crack down on this form of abuse . |
| 28 | The Department of Transport , the advertising industry and the police have combined to crack down on this menace which is still responsible for so much carnage and misery . |
| 29 | The police are only now beginning to crack down on this type of smuggling . |
| 30 | Now , in the dream influence of the moon , Fenna told Maggie to look down on all the kingdoms of the world , and across China she saw the snaking of the Great Wall . |