Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.

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1 To read how my own ancestors lived in the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts and to even learn that they occupied the 10th pew adjoining the South Wall in the Myddle Church has been the inspiration to write down some reminiscences of my own childhood and of the stories related to me , in the hope that they will be of interest , not only to the present generation , but maybe , also to that 500 years hence !
2 So are the precepts laid down in the Sermon on the Mount .
3 When the Derry team members take their place in Croke Park on September 19 for the All Ireland GAA final , chances are the song drifting down from the terraces will have been penned by Maghera man James Devlin .
4 So why are the Customs clamping down ?
5 They , they 're a bit run down .
6 It could have been a glass put down upon a table .
7 If rabbits do become cornered and then located there are no difficulties digging down through the minor roots from the thicket .
8 If we were gon na say , right , this only is gon na apply to mega- projects , tt and therefore it would be appropriate for the project coordinator to be the person to sit down at the start of the job , when he 's agreeing the remit with the client , when he 's developing the erm tt er who 's doing what within the functions .
9 Or it could be the boy going down through the field and scaring them .
10 The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’
11 In the light of what he read to be the limitation laid down by the Court of Appeal , the judge concluded , at p. 663E , that ‘ little , if any , of the information sought by the administrators can be described as ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’
12 I 'm a bit run down that 's all .
13 Doctors could buy the much needed equipment , they would n't have to work such long hours , there would be no need to close down wards , aye or even hospitals .
14 There should be no stairs to fall down or toys to play with .
15 The teeth there used to be a man come down about once every three months and er where he came from I do n't know .
16 For now , many companies are offering optional metering and some — those who are living in high ratable properties and do n't use much water , for example — this can be a way to cut down costs .
17 Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week .
18 A man would have to be an idiot to turn down such a chance .
19 It might be an idea to take down some of those trees .
20 In what appeared to be an attempt to play down the affair , President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , widely regarded as a " moderate " , commented in a sermon on Feb. 16 that " if the West deal with the issue logically , the result will be that the Imam 's sentence will be regarded as an issue of Islamic expertise , not anything else " .
21 Persons who are unable to satisfy the conditions for enrolment at the appropriate time , being the time laid down by the Senate under Section 3 , may at the discretion of the Senate be provisionally enrolled for such period not exceeding three months as may be authorised by or on behalf of the Senate .
22 The vultures were a nuisance swooping down if you were carrying food .
23 At that time there were no instructions laid down for dealing with the radio pirate vessels and , although this particular vessel was outside territorial waters , there was no reason why a cutter should not make reasonable enquiries from vessels in close proximity to our coast .
24 And there is the lane dropping down to the stone bridge that was rebuilt in 1948 , but unquestionably on the site of the stone bridge which is mentioned as a landmark in an even earlier charter .
25 It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence .
26 The company chose to divide its business in this fashion , Ferry says , because not only is the market going down this route , but Granada 's business is too .
27 In a similar manner , if cells of the sponge ( the bath sponge is the skeleton laid down by the sponge ) are separated into a random mixture of individual cells they will actively move around and become reorganized into a normal sponge , with the cells in the correct relationship with one another .
28 How is the show going down ?
29 Is the baby coming down with something nasty ?
30 Part of the unwillingness to make a decision is the unwillingness to turn down something — what is not chosen .
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