Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 2 | Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain . |
| 3 | Planted in horizontal rows across hillsides , the grass sinks deep roots and grows into a living retaining wall that traps soil washing down the slope . |
| 4 | The crabs have climbed down the cliffs , for their eggs must be deposited directly into the sea if they are to hatch . |
| 5 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |
| 6 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 7 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 8 | But at least drugs stopping the development of full-blown AIDS have kept down the death toll in the West . |
| 9 | Egon Zehnder consultants tend to play down the headhunter image , now freely accepted by most of the Big Four's directors , and see themselves , like their European colleagues , as management consultants . |
| 10 | The new directives aim to bring down the maximum permitted level of nitrates in drinking water to 50mg per litre . |
| 11 | Various constructions of people with learning difficulties have existed down the ages as society has attempted to define and make sense of patterns of behaviour which differ from the norm . |
| 12 | Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ? |
| 13 | That reminds me , did I tell you that the trustees have turned down a request from Annabel ? ’ |
| 14 | Meanwhile the world 's top players have turned down a tempting financial offer aimed at attracting them away from the Ulster Milk Games match between Europe and Asia in Belfast on June 8 . |
| 15 | The fists have rattled down the shins |
| 16 | But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations . |
| 17 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
| 18 | Police have scaled down the search for a multiple rapist saying they 've no new leads to follow . |
| 19 | Police have scaled down the search for a man who commited at least two rapes , because they have no other leads to follow . |
| 20 | Police have tracked down the main suppliers to the North West of England . |
| 21 | POLICE have closed down a massage business operating in the room where prostitute Lynne Trenholm was brutally murdered . |
| 22 | POLICE have closed down a massage parlour operating in the room where prostitute Lynne Trenholm was murdered . |
| 23 | Surely it is the fact all the other counties have gone down the same road that has persuaded Yorkshire that , in order to compete on equal terms , they must follow suit . |
| 24 | The German environmental authorities have closed down the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research , a nuclear research centre based in East Berlin after officials discovered massive contamination of the soil on the premises during routine tests . |
| 25 | The Lithuanian authorities have closed down the nuclear reactor at Ignalina because of a unspecified fault . |
| 26 | Both for different , but similar , reasons have turned down the chance of participating in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in July . |
| 27 | And the Germans have calmed down a lot , you 've got to admit that . |
| 28 | The Germans have shut down the remaining Chernobyl-style RBMK-1000 nuclear plants in the eastern part of their now united country . |
| 29 | Shingle moved to the upper parts of the beach by either of these causes will pile up until the bank becomes so steep that stones start to roll down the beach , thus maintaining a steeper inshore section to most beaches . |
| 30 | Stock analysts have written down the bank 's net asset value by a correspondingly precise sum . |