Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 3 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 4 | Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil . |
| 5 | Of the longer term organizational trends that have developed within the travel industry , diversification needs to be broken down into a range of separate forms . |
| 6 | A multilateral treaty relationship may be broken down into a series of bilateral relationships . |
| 7 | Kummar has tried to show how engineers in private industry have had their work increasingly fragmented and broken down into a series of simple individual steps . |
| 8 | The first group firmly believes that any document can be broken down into a series of discrete specifications which can then be used to automate the production process be embedding encapsulated versions , often called tags , within the source material . |
| 9 | Just as a graph can be plotted by defining the co-ordinates through which the line must pass so any shape can be broken down into a series of co-ordinates . |
| 10 | The project is broken down into a series of well-defined jobs of short duration whose cost and time can be estimated . |
| 11 | The project is broken down into a series of well-defined jobs of short duration whose cost and time can be estimated . |
| 12 | The visit may need to be broken down into a series of short and varied experiences . |
| 13 | Hierarchy presupposes an already determined outcome or purpose ; the underlying idea of hierarchy is that such an outcome can be broken down into a set of sub-processes . |
| 14 | And since complicated situations or statements can very easily be broken down into a set of simple statements , this in effect means that computers can store complex pieces of information too . |
| 15 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 16 | Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years . |
| 17 | However , in all cases the instructions can be broken down into a sequence of primitive operations on the various parts of the processor , such as the accumulators , the adder and the program counter ; notice that some of these parts are not directly accessible to the programmer . |
| 18 | For example , the fetching and execution of a " store accumulator " instruction can be broken down into a sequence of more primitive operations as shown in Figure 3.19 . |
| 19 | But since more complicated instructions can always be broken down into a collection of simple steps , this does n't matter either . |
| 20 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 21 | This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones . |
| 22 | All extended proportional series can be broken down into a number of linear series of cells , as in figs. 5.6 and 5.7 , and this is the form in which we shall study them . |
| 23 | The exposition is more easily understood if broken down into a number of stages . |
| 24 | These five factors can in turn be broken down into a number of subsidiary aspects to produce a specific number of questions to be answered in identifying the likely longer-run attractiveness of the industry . |
| 25 | Using the technique of functional decomposition , a very complex problem can be broken down into a number of fairly complex parts and then further to less complex parts until , at the bottom level , all the parts are fairly trivial and therefore easy to understand . |
| 26 | These factors can be broken down into a number of sets for the purposes of different sections of the UCTA , and probably form the most useful framework under which to analyse its effect . |
| 27 | And the reason for those is the iron in the blood is being oxidized by various substances in the body , it 's being broken down into a form in which the body can reabsorb that iron , and during the process you go through all these colour changes because of the different forms of iron oxide being produced . |
| 28 | The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes . |
| 29 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 30 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |