Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave the ‘ Maranyl ’ business the tool it needed to drive down batch/run size . |
| 2 | In the late morning he left the house to walk down Church Row to the garage where he kept his car . |
| 3 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 4 | Accused of a conflict of interest between its headhunting business and other functions , Peat 's were subjected to investigation by the American governing body for accountants , with the result that they decided to turn down headhunting work for their existing accounting clients . |
| 5 | The nineteenth-century origins of these provisions are closely tied into a desire to hold down state expenditure and to ensure that the wealthier classes did not have to dig too deep into their pockets to support people who could not work for wages . |
| 6 | This would tend to slow down capital turnover of old , inefficient equipment , exactly the opposite effect that is required . ’ |
| 7 | When massaged into the scalp , it helps to slow down hair loss by strengthening each shaft , thus lengthening the life of each hair . |
| 8 | Twenty minutes later Slendertone pads were placed on Santa 's fattest points to break down fluid retention . |
| 9 | A plan to take down Minto House in the Scottish Borders and rebuild it stone by stone as a country club in Japan has been abandoned . |
| 10 | And I agree I do n't want to wade through everything but I , I think we need to lay down management information criteria , and only receive information if it 's necessary on , on those headings . |
| 11 | It may be designed to cut down heat loss from the plant at night . |
| 12 | If my right hon. Friend is looking for ways to cut down car crime , will he have a word with the producers of ’ Inspector Morse ’ . |
| 13 | Its reason for this is largely to do with its distrust of the judges who , it feels , would use their power to strike down government action or legislation as being contrary to a Bill of Rights , as the American courts can do , to promote their own conservative values . |
| 14 | The Supreme Court relies on the language of equal protection to strike down state legislation that recognizes fundamental rights for some and not others . |