Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [art] [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 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 8 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 9 | This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ? |
| 12 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( For details on how to drain down the central heating system , see Chapter 13 . ) |
| 17 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It helps to ask the client 's permission to jot down a few facts . |
| 23 | It is useful to jot down a few examples under each point as this aids understanding and memory . |
| 24 | You need to jot down the main purpose , headings , ideas … then build your structure before you begin . |
| 25 | He and I may be strange companions in the same lobby but I am certain he has put his finger on an error which condemns many modern Church leaders to disappear down a theological black hole . |
| 26 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 27 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 30 | It is simpler to make the note " Jones p. 253 " than to write down a long dissertation which is already in print . |