Example sentences of "slow down " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the standard recovery , the full opposite rudder is always applied first , and if it does slow down the rotation , the nose of the glider will automatically drop , helping to unstall the wings . |
| 2 | If you concentrate hard enough , your mental activity will slow down . |
| 3 | Any bias will slow down movement in one or more directions and produce a tell-tale lurch of the shoulders as the body-weight is shifted . |
| 4 | The brewers argued that introducing arbitration would inevitably slow down the process of negotiating agreements . |
| 5 | Heat is nothing more than energy of atoms in motion , so if you can slow down atoms , you are in effect cooling them . |
| 6 | • The Japanese motoring industry is meanwhile considering if it should slow down its expansion into the luxury car market , due to the Gulf crisis hitting fuel prices . |
| 7 | If you slow its metabolism by restricted diet , it will mature more slowly and live longer than normal : the clock of its life will slow down . |
| 8 | They are indeed considerable achievements , but what they show most clearly is how hard it will be to get the major Third World countries to agree on any protocol which could slow down or affect industrial growth . |
| 9 | I wish that the producer of the series , Haggai Pinsker , could slow down his own breathless strike rate of stills , archive film , quickie interviews and manic music . |
| 10 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |
| 11 | A day to unwind and slow down to the leisurely pace of a Greek Cruise . |
| 12 | This narrowing or furring up of the arteries can slow down the flow of the blood to your heart ( giving rise to the condition known as angina ) or even cut off the supply completely , at which point a heart attack then occurs . |
| 13 | Vitamin E : research shows that it interrupts the free radical chain of destruction and so can slow down the ageing process . |
| 14 | Altering weather conditions can accelerate or slow down dredging programmes , and the engineer for a direct works section must also keep his construction plant and men employed in order to make them viable . |
| 15 | She might slow down . ’ |
| 16 | Rather than take the long outside course , A can slow down and cut inside |
| 17 | It may slow down the discussion but improve its quality . |
| 18 | She did n't slow down until she was almost out of breath . |
| 19 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 20 | Such structural changes are inevitable with the international division of labour but Northern protectionism will , undoubtedly , slow down this process . |
| 21 | Some find that they do slow down somewhat , and this is no bad thing — after all , what is the point of continuing to play a game of ‘ Beat the Clock ’ from morning till night ? |
| 22 | This must mean that future progress in the control of malaria will slow down . |
| 23 | LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors . |
| 24 | If you live at any distance from medical help , or are not within easy reach of a telephone , it might be wise to add some ‘ activated charcoal ’ to the medicine cupboard , as it can slow down the absorption of poison . |
| 25 | Cut the power and pull back the yoke fully , whereupon the Aircoupe will slow down to 50 mph and , because you ca n't stall it , will nod and mush downwards , the full-span ailerons remaining effective throughout . |
| 26 | Norman Collar was determined they should not slow down and he and Joan took an active part in delivering meals on wheels and ran a Red Cross hospital trolley service . |
| 27 | A recent experiment in America showed that people of normal weight might start eating at a reasonably rapid pace at the beginning of a meal , when their hunger is at a peak , but this eating rate will steadily slow down as the meal progresses . |
| 28 | I had a lesson with him and he told me that if I squeezed my knees together I would slow down my bottom half and be able to release the club as hard as I wanted to . |
| 29 | In this situation , some models will run out of RPM and the blades may slow down and the motor begin to labour . |
| 30 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ Motorists must slow down and take extra care . |