Example sentences of "down as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the deal goes through , Dr Brian Smith will step down as chairman of MB Group to make way for Murray Stuart , currently group chief executive . |
| 2 | In a board reorganisation , Sir Brian is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 3 | The plastic the French company uses for its interior trimmings is not of high quality and looks brittle and cheap , and in most places it sounds not to be screwed as tightly down as the designers originally intended . |
| 4 | MAURICE SAATCHI , who with his brother Charles created Saatchi & Saatchi , the world 's biggest advertising group , is stepping down as chief executive . |
| 5 | These receptors wrongly interpret the increased return of blood when lying down as a sign that excess blood volume has caused the blood vessels to become ‘ overfull ’ and so the kidney is instructed to remove the excess water and salts . |
| 6 | Because the more people who go vegetarian , the more the agricultural industry — and it is an industry these days , as mechanical as any other — will be forced to re-assess its methods of operation and adjust its swollen meat production policy down as demand dwindles . |
| 7 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 8 | The warning , which followed an appeal by the government for people to refrain from storming installations of the National People 's Army , came as the disgraced former Communist leader , Mr Egon Krenz , stood down as head of state and chairman of the country 's Defence Council . |
| 9 | The warning , which followed an appeal by the government for people to refrain from storming installations of the National People 's Army , came as the disgraced former Communist leader , Mr Egon Krenz , stood down as head of state and chairman of the country 's Defence Council . |
| 10 | The warning , which followed an appeal by the government for people to refrain from storming installations of the National People 's Army , came as the disgraced former Communist leader , Mr Egon Krenz , stood down as head of state and chairman of the country 's Defence Council . |
| 11 | This meant testing had to be done frequently and the waters closed down as a precaution once the blooms appeared . |
| 12 | Mr Krenz , sitting dejected among the delegates in the penultimate row of the sports hall where the congress was held , stepped down as party leader a week ago . |
| 13 | Mr Krenz , sitting dejected among the delegates in the penultimate row of the sports hall where the congress was held , stepped down as party leader a week ago . |
| 14 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 15 | McLeish told Francesca to hang on while he got this down as a note , and stared at the result . |
| 16 | Mr Orlando was forced to step down as mayor despite his popularity with the voters . |
| 17 | In April this year , however , the bank forced him to step down as head of Pathe , after its film and television business , MGM-Pathe , narrowly escaped bankruptcy . |
| 18 | He will say only that he will probably stay on as chief executive after he steps down as publisher . |
| 19 | After his Mirror Group Newspapers is floated in April , Robert Maxwell is stepping down as chairman of Maxwell Communication Corporation , and making his son Kevin chief executive . |
| 20 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 21 | That tour has , of course , gone down as the most exciting series of the century . |
| 22 | It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue . |
| 23 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 24 | In the early 1970s geological research highlighted the fact that lead ores carried distinctive isotope ratio signatures ' , depending upon the geological period when they were laid down as deposits . |
| 25 | I pulled her to the side where Otley dragged her up the bank and began to dust her down as if she were not wet but dirty . |
| 26 | But this idea of ‘ purity ’ as something that needs preserving , by others , and for others , is quite different from a purity which needs finding , indeed which must be searched for , struggled for , hunted down as the precious thing it is . |
| 27 | Yet many would have had Allen marked down as a real contender . |
| 28 | Limeking went down as if shot , and his rider Pat Buckley desperately tried to get him to his feet as the horse , flanks heaving , lay in a mess of thorn and fir and mud . |
| 29 | Rather than marking the person down as a supporter , try a follow-up saying : ‘ Thanks , I 'll get a colleague to call round . ’ |
| 30 | Sad to say , the neighbourhood had been pulled down as ‘ a slum ’ in 1927 , a council action that had staggered the rest of Galway . |