Example sentences of "[be] [verb] down on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 2 | The main disadvantage of this arrangement is that the cameras are looking down on those speaking from the front-benches , and , unless they take care to keep their heads up , the tops of their heads rather than their faces are exposed on the screen . |
| 3 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 4 | Yeah so , there 's a bit more , more could have been written down on that . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’ |
| 6 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 7 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , local police are clamping down on high-tech crime . |
| 9 | We tried to keep the scaffolders er occupied , doing their scaffolding bit accurate but safe everybody 's gon na be climbing down on that . |
| 10 | At some police stations , when a suspect is in custody , his name may be written down on different pieces of paper on sixteen separate occasions . |
| 11 | Sometimes it is , sometimes it is n't , but what black people have to do is to become so well qualified that they can not be turned down on this basis — or at least if they are they can refer it to the Race Relations Board . |
| 12 | I live in hope that the Institute will be clamping down on such practices , although I fear that this will increase the cost of an audit for the smaller business . |
| 13 | Thus , in lighter winds , it should be kept down on all points of sailing . |
| 14 | For example , persons should be held in such a way as to avoid any interference with breathing or blood circulation , or contact with sexual areas ; if possible they should be held down on soft surfaces such as a bed , chair etc . |
| 15 | Research Association been put down on this |
| 16 | That was the approach of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Birmingham City Council , Ex parte Ferrero Ltd. ( 1991 ) 89 L.G.R. 977 where the judgments were handed down on 23 May 1991 . |
| 17 | That was the approach of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Birmingham City Council , Ex parte Ferrero Ltd. ( 1991 ) 89 L.G.R. 977 where the judgments were handed down on 23 May 1991 . |
| 18 | Suppose coal were run down on short-term profit calculations , how did any private or public organisation running the railways cope with the consequences to freight ? |
| 19 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 20 | North York Moors National Park authority is to clamp down on hundreds of illegal signs . |
| 21 | But in the end , at that last hour , it comes down to the 15 and everything we do is focused down on that last hour . ’ |
| 22 | And he 's coming down on all the way through there and he landed just across there and landed , I think he very . |
| 23 | The best advice now available is to cut down on Omega-6 fats and balance them with Omega-3 fish oils . |
| 24 | The only way I could have done real justice to the subject would have been to cut down on other chapters , and that would have made it more of a carp book than anything else . |
| 25 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down on each occasion . |
| 26 | Bright was turned down on both counts by Field , whose principal consideration was the weather . |
| 27 | D.F.C. , was shot down on 13 April 1941 by a Bf109E , and forced to ditch into the sea . |
| 28 | He was laid down on brittle pampas grass and then manhandled by the creatures . |
| 29 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |