Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 2 | God looks down at this cooperative effort of man trying to make himself god-like , and sees it as the beginning of worse rebellion against him . |
| 3 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 4 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 5 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
| 6 | It breaks down like this : |
| 7 | Example ( 3 ) falls down in this respect in that it includes two different activities and outcomes : ‘ to draw up a plan ’ , and ‘ to execute it ’ . |
| 8 | It comes down to this : a rejection of the single most important human fact between Newton and the Atomic Bomb — the sudden multiple increase of the earth 's population , the coming into existence of the MASSES . |
| 9 | It comes down to this : can the ERM be modified to preserve some of the benefits of exchange-rate stability , while allowing governments greater freedom to change monetary policy according to domestic economic circumstances ? |
| 10 | It simply comes down to this : if deer are not culled , they die of starvation . |
| 11 | ‘ In the end I think the problem comes down to this : what does public policy demand as best to be done ? |
| 12 | The financial accounting question comes down to this : which year(s) bears the 10,000 ? |
| 13 | And yet , when you 've tried all the rest , it comes down to this , and it makes you feel better anyway , but it 's the last resort |