Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition . |
| 2 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 3 | It was enacted that the vill should not be required to pay the cost of service beyond the county boundary , that the equipment required of troops should not go beyond that laid down in the Statute of Winchester , and that service overseas should not be required as an obligation of tenure . |
| 4 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 5 | A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive . |
| 6 | However , by the autumn of 1992 , both the government and other experts were predicting that the continuing recession would lead to a still more rapid slow down in the growth of government revenue . |
| 7 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 8 | Because it is the most complex of all food elements , protein is the hardest to break down in the body , requiring a great deal of energy . |
| 9 | ‘ And we all converge down in the meadow where the skirmishing will take place . |
| 10 | Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 . |
| 11 | Times when we all get down in the dumps , but God can always reach deep within us and put us back on our feet again . |
| 12 | You know , again as you said earlier on it all comes down in the end to the head ! |
| 13 | To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria . |
| 14 | In November the Smolensk guberniia executive committee is being rebuked in turn by no less a person than V. Molotov , Secretary of the Central Committee in Moscow , for allowing subordinates to impose taxes beyond those laid down in the All-Union list . |
| 15 | L 24 , p. 1 ) were adopted , all the member states applied to registration similar nationality requirements to those laid down in the Act of 1988 . |
| 16 | It is likely that , in recent years , a majority of such orders have been sought by the preserved railways under the very procedures that are to be replaced by those laid down in the Bill . |
| 17 | If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height . |
| 18 | In Cannock Forest the warden might take ten oaks from those blown down in the hays of Alrewas , Hopwas and Gailey , and in ‘ the wood called Hockley ’ . |
| 19 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | The costs were provided in the previous year with the exception of a £1.1 million write down in the value of the Dumfries building charged in 1992/93 . |
| 21 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 22 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 23 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 24 | On the Sunday , regulars from Manchester 's Most Excellent partied down in the Rover 's Return in an enjoyable one-off hostessed by a leopardskin-clad drag version of Bet Lynch . |
| 25 | They both sat down in the deeply cushioned cane chairs and looked out over what was left of the original coconut grove , now a building-site . |