Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 2 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 3 | The law lays down the general principle , and the doctor who acts skilfully , reasonably , and in good faith is protected . |
| 4 | The injected magnetosheath plasma precipitates down the convecting open field lines , into the ionosphere in the cusps ( C ) . |
| 5 | Many will see this paper as a fundamental attack on the NHS , a means by which a free service slides down the slippery slope of privatisation . |
| 6 | He is best imagined as an old-fashioned sawbones before the invention of anaesthetics , carving away placidly while an assistant holds down the screaming patient . |
| 7 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet actually reduces the rates of hormone production by the thyroid , and in turn slows down the metabolic rate . |
| 8 | Darius stomps down the three steps without saying a word . |
| 9 | The candidate looks down the offered answers arid circles A or B or C or whichever answer he thinks appropriate . |
| 10 | Society lays down the basic rules of the marriage contract . |
| 11 | IN PRINT : How to Plan , Purchase , and Produce Print breaks down the complicated publication process into an easy-to-follow , step-by-step sequence . |
| 12 | The program works down the hierarchical spaces , rotating them to achieve a zero rotational error in each sub-space between the actual end of the mechanism and the reference point . |
| 13 | ( If the proverb is not understood first time , the PP writes down the key word and then repeats the whole proverb up-to-time . ) |
| 14 | In ‘ Questions of genre ’ he has returned to such fundamental terms of genre poetics as expectation , verisimilitude institutional discourses and practices specific to cinema ; his essay on the American war film breaks down the homogeneous generality of a single film genre into particular typologies of form , structure and discourse which play out particular regimes of power and ideology . |
| 15 | Perm lotion breaks down the natural structure of your hair , then a neutraliser resets it into a new shape around a curler . |
| 16 | Liessa swings down the mounting ladder and lands with her legs locked around Laolith 's leathery neck . |
| 17 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |
| 18 | The weight of the wasp upon its lower lip brings down the upper lip of the flower containing the anthers , to dust the wasp 's back liberally before his eventual , disappointed departure to another flower , carrying the orchid pollen with him . |
| 19 | More experimental work in oils runs down the central spine of the exhibition including as it does both the ring form Sea and Rocks ( 534 ) and the hessian Collage in Brown of Trees ( 34 ) . |
| 20 | The water is contained in a clear plastic tank and the steam comes down the thick tubes from the tank to the iron . |
| 21 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 22 | A track leads down the open fellside to join Fell Beck , whose peaty waters eventually tumble into the fern-hung swallow hole of Gaping Gill . |