Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] down [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recommended route is to walk down one side of Lake Rotoiti and catch a water-taxi back , a stroll of about seven miles . |
| 2 | The best thing to do is to put down absorbent floor covering in those rooms . |
| 3 | Ministers for such tough assignments need pioneering gifts ( i.e. they need to be made in the apostolic mould ) and cross-cultural training if a church is to put down local roots . |
| 4 | Because in their terms , the object of the control regime , is to force down aggregate levels of indebtedness , and there are mechanisms wi within which it works which do that . |
| 5 | One solution , widely endorsed , is to break down psychological processes into putative substages and assign these to different parts of the brain ( Dean 1982 ; Luria 1973 ) . |