Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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1 | When gannets are on the ground , you ca n't miss the yellowy orange band of colour on the top of their heads which reaches down the back of their necks , and the unusual blue-grey hue of the beaks and feet . |
2 | The predisposing factors identified ( Eastman , 1984 , Hickey , 1981 ) include severe physical and mental infirmity which wears down the carer , poor communication , lack of respite care , lack of praise from the dependent person . |
3 | Michael Smith was driving the quad bike which ran down a hunt saboteur . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | Consultant pathologist Dr John Ryan said she was more susceptible to the cold because of a condition called hypothyroidism which slows down the body 's metabolism . |
7 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
8 | I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | From this it is deduced that one who is seised must have an estate , and unless he claims through some gift which cuts down the estate then it will be a fee simple … |
11 | The financial crisis which brought down the Labour government caused a rapid increase in the cost of unemployment assistance , an increase which pre-Keynesian economic theory held to be highly undesirable . |
12 | At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , work by Janet Hemingway on anopheline mosquitoes has shown that malathion specific resistance is inherited as a single gene controlling a carboxylesterase enzyme which breaks down the malathion to its monoacid . |
13 | This is done either by an enzyme which breaks down the neurotransmitter or , more commonly , the neurotransmitter can be transported back into the presynaptic area . |
14 | Similar provisions appear in international conventions which lay down the terms of contracts for international carriage of goods . |
15 | But it is not only recession fears which drive down the pound . |
16 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
17 | Studying the map back at the motor cycle , he saw that it had once carried what was now that branch of the Makaa River which flowed down the valley below the track up to the President 's cabin . |
18 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
19 | The FMS was active in the protest movement which brought down the Lemus regime ( 1956–60 ) but , in common with many other groups , it became progressively disillusioned by the perpetual electoral frauds . |
20 | The li as a whole is the cosmic pattern which lays down the lines along which nature and man move , which harmonizes opposites with complementary functions , Yin and Yang , ruler and subject , father and son , and alternates day and night , birth and death , the rise and fall of dynasties , in regular cycles , diverging downwards to the minutest detail of texture and converging upwards to the unity in which everything is interrelated . |
21 | Below the vernier is an illuminated mute button which shuts down the output socket sited on the far right , so when the tuner is put in line between the guitar and amp it mutes the signal after the tuner , for silent tuning on stage . |
22 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
23 | There 's an article of the Constitution which lays down the fields with which Parliament may concern itself . |
24 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath which lays down the obligations and proper conduct of their profession . |
29 | It had been known at the time of his appointment that Miyazawa and members of his Cabinet had been implicated , in varying degrees , in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal which brought down the Takeshita administration in 1989 [ see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] . |
30 | The campaigners all live within sight of Silverhill Colliery which shut down a year ago . |