Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 2 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 4 | As his hand was crushed down onto the red-hot ring again , Connelly 's body jerked convulsively and so savagely that the man holding him up was almost knocked off balance , but he stood his ground while his companion pressed down on the limb . |
| 5 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 6 | Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges . |
| 7 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 8 | She looked up at us very dolefully , and explained that she had ‘ fallen down in the 'igh Street ’ , and broken a bone in her foot . |
| 9 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 10 | It is the variance , not the midspread , which is broken down into a fitted ( ‘ explained ’ ) and residual ( ‘ unexplained ’ ) component . |
| 11 | LIFESPAN RDBI data transfers can be broken down into the following phases : |
| 12 | Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) . |
| 13 | Broken down into the different crops , the figures put soft wheat at 75.68m tonnes ( compared with 72.9m tonnes last year ) , followed by barley , 44.6m tonnes ( 45.7m ) ; maize , 27.4m tonnes ( 22m ) ; durum , 9.3m tonnes ( 7.1m ) ; rye , 3.1m tonnes ( 3.3m ) ; oats , 4.4m tonnes ( 4.6m ) ; sorghum , 0.51m tonnes ( 0.45m ) ; and triticale 1.5m tonnes ( 1.1m ) . |
| 14 | In the classical theory of general relativity one can not predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity . |
| 15 | The privacy and identity that they possessed by living in family homes separated from other families , even when members of co-operatives , would be broken down under the new arrangements . |
| 16 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 17 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 18 | These have to be broken down by the digestive system before they are absorbed as single units of mainly glucose and fructose . |
| 19 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 20 | But the evidence suggests that the fragile though real co-operation between liberals and workers of 1905 had broken down by the pre-war years . |
| 21 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 22 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 23 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 24 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 25 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 26 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 27 | The artwork is placed down onto the UV light box so that the ‘ Copper Track View ’ of the artwork is downwards , towards the light source . |
| 28 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 29 | Not only that , but he must have swallowed the large Garry Dog I had on the line , which must have floated down in an unrestricted way to him . ’ |
| 30 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |