Example sentences of "[v-ing] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was responding to Monday 's claim in the Belfast Irish News that at least three dozen officers were members of a secret ‘ inner circle ’ which had the objects of ‘ removing ’ republican suspects and bringing down the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 2 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 3 | Heseltine faced the tactical dilemma that were he to campaign openly and be seen to be instrumental in splitting the party and bringing down the Prime Minister , he would be criticised as divisive and disloyal . |
| 4 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 5 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 6 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 7 | An elderly Indian woman in a sari is closing up and bringing down the grated gate . |
| 8 | The rising sun , lancing down the Sambre valley , dazzled Sharpe . |
| 9 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 10 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 11 | This was largely done by driving down the case-fatality rate ( as was done also with diphtheria ) but by cutting the prevalence of diseases even greater successes were won . |
| 12 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 13 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 14 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 16 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ They are in exactly the same place , walking down the same path ’ — he paused , pulling back a cuff to expose his stone , circle-sized Rolex — ‘ some four thousand years ago . |
| 18 | He appeared in July ‘ 85 , ambling down the 18th fairway at Royal St George 's . |
| 19 | Your trousers , which can carry braiding down the outside seam as decoration , should be supported , however , and by braces . |
| 20 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 21 | The Bush administration sent contradictory signals about its intentions to continue its economic strategy of keeping down the federal deficit while awaiting recovery in 1992 . |
| 22 | If his vigilance fails , he faces the wrath of ordinary people : depositors whose savings are at risk and taxpayers whose money is used to stop one bank collapse from knocking down the entire banking system . |
| 23 | ( Robyn goes into her long narrow living-room , formed by knocking down the dividing wall between the front and back parlours of the little house , which also serves as her study . |
| 24 | Figaro was his first real success , and he and Mozart worked closely on the text , toning down the political comment , and emphasizing the comic ( buffo ) elements so perfectly suited to Mozart 's deft , sparkling setting . |
| 25 | It was twilight and a brilliant new moon was gliding down the bright end of the sky , followed by a cascade of stars . |
| 26 | At harvest services when the church was crowded and extra seats were needed the stewards simply borrowed what chairs they could get form the neighbours living down the White Row in Carrickblacker Road . |
| 27 | The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation . |
| 28 | Photo : Suttons Looking down the 15th hole in the early 1970's . |
| 29 | Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ . |
| 30 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |