Example sentences of "[to-vb] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) . |
| 2 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |
| 3 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 4 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 5 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 6 | To catch the offending shrimp , it is often necessary to strip down the entire tank , rock by rock , until it is found . |
| 7 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |
| 8 | If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ? |
| 9 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 10 | We can see from Labour 's amendment J that Councillor , as I said earlier , intends to go down the same old socialist way of providing the very type of housing that is currently failing tenants . |
| 11 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 12 | His running tore QPR to shreds and he took a Waddle ball after 30 minutes to go down the left and set up Bright for a virtual tap in , his eighth goal in 14 games . |
| 13 | ( For details on how to drain down the central heating system , see Chapter 13 . ) |
| 14 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 15 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 16 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 17 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 18 | If the Minister is saying that the proposal is liable to bog down the entire system and cause administrative chaos , he may be right as regards some of the effects . |
| 19 | You need to jot down the main purpose , headings , ideas … then build your structure before you begin . |
| 20 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 21 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 22 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 23 | One girl stopped the others to ask advice about how to write down the ghostly sound of a door opening . |
| 24 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 25 | You get a little book , and you have to take out the tape , and you have to write down the different conversations you have in between , all your conversations , and then erm , . |
| 26 | In Cheshire Lines Committee v. Lewis & Co. ( 1880 ) 50 L.J.Q.B. 121 an agreement for a weekly tenancy contained an undertaking by the landlord not to give notice to quit until the landlord required to pull down the demised buildings . |
| 27 | Since unionization levels among white-collar workers are about half those for blue-collar in both countries , this shift worked to pull down the average level of unionization even though more white-collar workers started to join unions . |
| 28 | Remove Marxism — as the Hungarians have done this weekend — and the pressures to pull down the artificial barriers with the other freer , richer , and more appealing Germany , would become irresistible . |
| 29 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 30 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |