Example sentences of "[verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 2 | He was responding to Monday 's claim in the Belfast Irish News that at least three dozen officers were members of a secret ‘ inner circle ’ which had the objects of ‘ removing ’ republican suspects and bringing down the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 3 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 4 | Heseltine faced the tactical dilemma that were he to campaign openly and be seen to be instrumental in splitting the party and bringing down the Prime Minister , he would be criticised as divisive and disloyal . |
| 5 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 6 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 7 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 8 | An elderly Indian woman in a sari is closing up and bringing down the grated gate . |
| 9 | It has no calories of its own , but it does slow down the metabolic rate , making it harder to burn up the calories you do consume . |
| 10 | However , if weight loss is excessive , then muscle tissue rather than fat tissue is lost , and this in turn will slow down the metabolic rate , making it more difficult to lose weight thereafter . |
| 11 | Better sacks have bound seams which do at least slow down the leaking process . |
| 12 | Vitamin E : research shows that it interrupts the free radical chain of destruction and so can slow down the ageing process . |
| 13 | The rising sun , lancing down the Sambre valley , dazzled Sharpe . |
| 14 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 15 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 16 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 17 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 18 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 19 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 20 | Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ . |
| 21 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 22 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 23 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |
| 24 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 25 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 26 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 27 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 28 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 29 | I suspect part of the reason behind the council buying the ground in 1983 ? was so they could knock down the old rugby league stadium . |
| 30 | 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 . |