Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 2 | Heather puts the loss of the money down to pure bad luck . |
| 3 | Maitre Tajan will be bringing the gavel down on two attractive paintings from the Polo collection in this sale of Old Masters . |
| 4 | Chidzero on July 27 , 1989 , announced a stringent budget for 1989-90 aimed at reducing by 11 per cent the previous year 's budget deficit , and bringing the deficit down to 9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 5 | Breaking the budget down into shorter periods facilitates a more effective control device . |
| 6 | The importance of stopping smoking needs to be very strongly emphasised , as well as the advisability of sticking to a low animal fat diet for the future , of getting the weight down to normal and of taking those measures necessary to reduce blood pressure to an ideal level , i.e. reducing salt and alcohol intake , keeping the weight normal , taking regular exercise and avoiding anger . |
| 7 | At that point Banana manager Keith Lambert instructed Luckwell to drop back and help with the chase and it was touch and go as the next group brought the gap down to three minutes on the finishing circuit at Rotherham . |
| 8 | But if you widen the pavements and you differentiate the pavements from the roadway , and you use continental traffic calming measures which are not great big humps but which are perhaps little stretches of cobbles and things like that , then you should be able to bring the speed down to twenty miles an hour . |
| 9 | Yes it 's now going to take two years longer I think than was originally er contended , to what extent is this due to technical difficulties and to what extent is it due to one of our partners and Germany one 's thinking of in particular , wishing to slow the programme down for fiscal reasons ? |
| 10 | The price of keeping the bonus down to manageable proportions is a somewhat less efficient outcome . |
| 11 | Subsequently , selected documents were released from the presidential archives , apparently implicating Gorbachev in taking part in or in concealing information about various episodes of Soviet history , including the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight KAL-007 in 1983 [ see pp. 32513-7 ] , the order for the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 , and direct orders from Stalin for the murder of Polish officers in 1940 ( the Katyn massacre — for April 1990 Soviet admission of responsibility see pp. 37383-84 ) . |
| 12 | AMERICA ordered an aircraft carrier into the Gulf yesterday as Iraq threatened revenge over the shooting down of one of its warplanes . |
| 13 | Vukovar and Vinkovci south of Osijek were bombarded on Aug. 25 on a scale unprecedented in the conflict , possibly in retaliation for the shooting down of two air force jets by Croatian forces in the area on Aug. 24 . |
| 14 | The actions of the USSR must be seen in the context of a dramatic change in the international situation , caused by the shooting down on 1 May of a US U2 spy plane flying over the heart of continental Russia . |
| 15 | Other recent cases of " friendly fire " involving US forces included air attacks on UK personnel during the Gulf war [ see p. 38927 ; see also pp. 36169-70 for the shooting down in 1988 of an Iranian commercial airliner ] . |
| 16 | This move had the effect of driving the value of the pound down by 25 per cent against the US dollar in February ( as at Feb. 24 US$1.00=L£992.561 ) . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Pull the club down in one smooth movement retaining as big a wrist angle as possible . |
| 18 | In September 1989 Judge Edward H. Johnson , a superior court judge of Georgia , Atlanta , ruled that Larry James McAfee , 33 , paralysed from the neck down since 1985 had the constitutional right to turn off a ventilator and to end his own life . |
| 19 | Fly to Brittany , take the boat down to Nice , go up and down the coast , then the Adriatic or other parts of the Med . |
| 20 | She set the candelabrum and the tray down on one of the tables , removing his greatcoat and placing it carefully over the back of a chair so that she might lay out a cloth and utensils . |
| 21 | Their generous mouths worked , but the snips held the dialogue down to sub-audible level . |
| 22 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 23 | The 320SLi 's power-management features include the ability to configure the BIOS to automatically shut parts of the machine down after specified internals of inactivity . |
| 24 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 25 | They had endless meetings with the producer and the reporters who would be covering the day , and Kathleen laid the law down with such charm and skill they almost did n't notice . |
| 26 | This morning the rain has kept the numbers on the pavement down to three German lads in anoraks holding photographs of Isabella . |
| 27 | Other retro favourites are flares and bell-bottoms , such as all-in-one Barbarella-style pants suits , skimming the body down into gentle flares . |
| 28 | After opening this campaign with a 6-0 , 6-1 win over Greece 's Christina Papaduka , Evert said : ‘ I feel I let the team down in that match two years ago . |
| 29 | Rather than being thrown away , the contaminated milk was poured into tanks of clean milk to dilute the lead down to permissible levels . |
| 30 | After the minor unpleasantness with the redhead , he 'd felt able to shake the place down without much fear of interruption . |