Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] down [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Killer bug shuts down baby ward |
| 2 | Last November the executive committee turned down North Down 's application . |
| 3 | A plan to take down Minto House in the Scottish Borders and rebuild it stone by stone as a country club in Japan has been abandoned . |
| 4 | The nineteenth-century origins of these provisions are closely tied into a desire to hold down state expenditure and to ensure that the wealthier classes did not have to dig too deep into their pockets to support people who could not work for wages . |
| 5 | A filing mechanism cuts down debtor misbehaviour because the availability of reliable information about the debtor 's property reduces the debtor 's incentive to misbehave by removing the opportunity to do so . |
| 6 | John Coffin walked down Church Row on his way home , cutting through Queen Charlotte 's Alley , on purpose to have a look at the house where the Flemings lived . |
| 7 | Training breaks down muscle tissue and during rest periods the tissue is repaired and growth takes place if sufficient protein is available . |
| 8 | The Supreme Court relies on the language of equal protection to strike down state legislation that recognizes fundamental rights for some and not others . |
| 9 | In the late morning he left the house to walk down Church Row to the garage where he kept his car . |
| 10 | Its reason for this is largely to do with its distrust of the judges who , it feels , would use their power to strike down government action or legislation as being contrary to a Bill of Rights , as the American courts can do , to promote their own conservative values . |
| 11 | It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat ( 33 per cent of a target population of 200 ) , but less predictably , great suspicion was aroused by the use of multiplication as a way of combining the two components of need for change . |