Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , in the test runs described in the next chapter we cut down the utterance length to no more than 10 words . |
| 2 | The principal Acts of Parliament which set down the audit requirements of central government are the Exchequer and Audit Departments Acts 1866 and 1921 and the National Audit Act 1983 . |
| 3 | Now it is open and defenceless against the machetes which slash down the undergrowth for tinder. — when the tinder is dry the fires can be lit to burn off the remaining forest to make way for agriculture or ranching ( in many areas this ‘ slash and burn ’ forest clearance happens without first even removing the usable hardwood ) . |
| 4 | This is just one version out of the score of recipes for this venerable dish which is not a grill at all and which you will scarcely find nowadays simmering away in the galleys of the great petrol barges which whirl down the Rhone to Marseille . |
| 5 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 6 | I said I told you if you want chips you go down the chip shop . |
| 7 | ‘ In your lunch hour you head down the King 's Road from Sloane Square . |
| 8 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 9 | as in this case we go down the three column , the three is a in the numerator N one , right , till we reach seventeen , right , and now test to see if it 's three point two right , so if we |
| 10 | Well , then how do you explain the night I put down a copy of Viz , turned on the telly , and settled in for what I thought would be a programme of smart , irreverent comedy ? |
| 11 | But it is not only recession fears which drive down the pound . |
| 12 | And part of it is discipline — you know , making your room up and one day you clean the porch , one day you sweep down the kitchen … you have different duties every day . |
| 13 | Brazil 's best known green congressman , Fabio Feldmann , warned that several state governors in the Amazon have recently been elected on an anti-ecology ticket , promising to protect farmers who burn down the rain forest . |
| 14 | Every job that I give Kevin I write down a , a brief summary of what that task was , and I leave a gap of three lines . |
| 15 | Whichever age you encounter down the Everton trail , you come up with marvellous contributors to the club 's roll of honour . |
| 16 | A range of disorders in the foetus may be caused by the absence of the correct enzymes which break down the food which the foetus absorbs in the womb . |
| 17 | Interestingly , there is a single ‘ command ’ neurone which can cause an increased supply of blood to the body , by stimulating the two accelerating neurones , and inhibiting the neurones which slow down the heart , and also those that constrict the blood-vessels . |
| 18 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 19 | We are particularly interested in the comparative statics , and for this purpose we write down the equations of change . |
| 20 | The way they joke about their LP going to 207 ‘ with an anchor ’ , the way they break down the myths of the American Dream and the Troubles back home … |