Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The build itself can be broken down into two groups , ‘ Direct Build Costs ’ and ‘ Other Costs . ’ |
| 2 | Since the relevant words are ‘ I know , Pamphilus , that everything I leave you will pass to my sons … ’ , the question can be broken down into two parts : do these words amount to a trust at all ? |
| 3 | At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y. |
| 4 | The main recommendations of the Obair Report boiled down to two things . |
| 5 | The laibon takes us to the spot beneath the escarpment , looking down through two rock walls onto the plain , where Claudia built her little house . |
| 6 | The boat came down between two waves , and Grace quickly got her oars out . |
| 7 | It was later written down in two books called the Mishnah and the Talmud . |
| 8 | Wirral still await a first win but battled hard against Caldy before going down by two wickets in the last over . |
| 9 | It breaks down into two parts . |
| 10 | So here we explain how you can complain effectively about anything , from a problem at the bank , an inflated gas bill or a TV set that breaks down after two days . |
| 11 | He was seen to bend down at two drains near his home . |
| 12 | The pound is down at one dollar fifty four , but up down at two marks forty three . |
| 13 | All of its provisions had been upheld other than that relating to spousal notification which was struck down by two votes to one . |
| 14 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 15 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
| 16 | In the face of falling demand for its Intel Corp i860 RISC compilers , The Portland Group , Wilsonville , Oregon , has shut its European office in Reading , Berkshire , which had been run down to two employees . |
| 17 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 18 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 19 | One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve . |
| 20 | He 'll not come down for two week ! |
| 21 | For eighteen months the Government lived on a wafer-thin majority which was shaved down to two seats , and in economic circumstances of exceptional difficulty . |
| 22 | Sitting down between two piles of books Endill began to read Useful Tips on Flying , but it was more about what to do when you had a plane rather than how to make one . |
| 23 | The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi . |
| 24 | I must sit down for two minutes , Jim . |
| 25 | We boiled your memory banks down into two categories — the rest we threw away , sorry to say . |
| 26 | Another man , ridden down by two Dragoons , choked on blood . |
| 27 | Ideally use a floorboard saw , or alternatively a general purpose saw with fairly fine teeth to cut down between two boards . |
| 28 | To sum up , when buying clubs it comes down to two things — that you must seek the judgement of a qualified professional golfer you trust , and the clubs have to feel right and look right for you . |
| 29 | Apart form requiring a certain amount of self-discipline from those doing it ( and when the legality of remote logging of work-rate seems doubtful under the health and safety laws for VDU operators ) , the tasks which seem capable of being gone this way seem to boil down to two types : self-contained project assignments ( computer programming , report writing , design ) and batch-related clerical work ( data entry or telesales ) . |
| 30 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |