Example sentences of "[verb] down as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Monetary Union , the situation arises not just from the special treatment accorded to the UK and Denmark , but also from the fact that it was appreciated that not all Member States would meet the rather strict criteria for economic convergence laid down as the precondition for participation in the monetary union ; such States are referred to as ‘ Member States with a derogation ’ , and would , inter alia , be excluded from the decision-making process on certain matters . |
| 2 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 3 | Well I 've got that written down as the beginning of what goes in but e , I do n't actually do those the departments do them . |
| 4 | While the Prince of Banality is going down as the embodiment of Eighties vulgarity and hype , the museum world and the academy are singing his praises . |
| 5 | On Feb. 21 Nakasone stepped down as the faction 's leader in favour of Michio Watanabe . |
| 6 | However , this was now slowing down as the asset value and employment value of the farm was appreciated — a situation that compared with Orkney and North Yorkshire . |
| 7 | It is understood Tory Councillor Bill Woodhead will step down as the borough 's top civic dignitary after being charged with hitting his wife just hours after being elected . |
| 8 | Victims first know that they are marked down as the tiger 's next meal when those enormously powerful front feet hit them . |
| 9 | But it is changed too in that it is not so much the details of infant care that are laid down as the principles which should be followed in deciding the details . |
| 10 | The front of the raft would rise alarmingly into the air then dip down as the stern followed over the crest of the wave . |
| 11 | Applause died down as the curtains folded Hubert and his weights away . |
| 12 | The gunfire outside died down as the Haitians scattered . |
| 13 | As the number of species studied increases the simple classification into adaptive grades begins to break down as the variance within species and between species begins to exceed that between the categories described as grades . |
| 14 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 15 | One of the two reactors of Spain 's Asco power station was shut down as the result of a leak , although there was no discharge of radioactivity into the atmosphere . |
| 16 | We descended down as the flak , which caused us no major problems , opened up . |
| 17 | Robert Crehan claims he was held down as the body building star repeatedly kicked him . |