Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 2 | He felt the contact was so invaluable that he was prepared to turn down the job at the head of one of the UK 's premier blue-chip companies if it meant making such a sacrifice . |
| 3 | By having the individual numbers logged at a central computer , it is then possible to track down the dog 's owner without difficulty . |
| 4 | As a result , I believe it is appropriate to write down the value of our assets by a substantial amount . |
| 5 | In a Plinian eruption , it 's usually impossible to pin down the site of the vent exactly , since it stands a high chance of being obliterated or destroyed by the eruption itself . |
| 6 | Certainly , in essence this is a political decision , but it would be naive to play down the extent to which this and other aspects of the policy agenda is shaped by officials . |
| 7 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 8 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 9 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 10 | They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands . |
| 11 | It was a relief to be able to put down the suitcase . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm happy to turn down the heating . ’ |
| 13 | The risk will grow if any of the following should happen : a spike in interest rates ( forward rates already indicate that investors expect higher rates by the end of the year ) ; an unexpected collapse of the dollar ( the Federal Reserve , at the Treasury 's direction , was intervening furiously last week to prevent the already weak currency from sinking further ) ; or , let's face it , if Washington proves itself unable to wrestle down the budget deficit . |
| 14 | ‘ A few people would lose their hands to begin with — but very soon we would be able to cut down the size of our police forces by at least 50 per cent . |
| 15 | By thinking carefully about the answer you should be able to narrow down the essence of your case to a single sentence , and a short one at that . |
| 16 | Two months later he was able to bring down the Government , and Lord Malmesbury took over as Foreign Secretary in the new Conservative administration . |
| 17 | Just as the term ‘ literacy ’ itself turned out to be more precise than in general use , and we were able to pin down the distinction ‘ literate/non-literate ’ to ‘ literacy in classical Greece ’ as opposed to literacy or non-literacy elsewhere , so the grand consequences of the literacy being described can be seen from this passage to hinge on very particular distinctions . |
| 18 | The government saw it as essential to slim down the coal industry [ see p. 38781 ] in preparation for the eventual privatization of British Coal itself . |
| 19 | Amidst such confusion as this , however , the press was more commonly inclined to shout down the leniency of magistrates , or ‘ this appalling apathy on the part of the police ’ , because if in some quarters the press were accused of bulling up the Hooligan affair , elsewhere the police were said to be playing it down . |
| 20 | I suppose I was inclined to lay down the law . ’ |
| 21 | From astride the flake it is necessary to reverse down the edge by a gripping slither , controlled by the braking effect of the left hand jammed in the crack . |
| 22 | Marlow is understandably keen to play down the word fungus , preferring to describe it as myco-protein and stress its undeniable virtues such as its high fibre and protein content , coupled with low fat and non-existent cholesterol . |
| 23 | Tighter control of the dimensions of the cylinder bores and the piston ring pack under running conditions is necessary to bring down the contribution of unburned oil , while low-sulphur fuel will help reduce output of acid rain-causing sulphates . |
| 24 | It was something to do with homing in more precisely on what had really happened , seeing if it was ever possible to pin down the truth . |
| 25 | All these signals would be sufficient to slow down the expansion of Dept . |