Example sentences of "[vb -s] down in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 2 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 3 | That constancy of composition relationship breaks down in enclosed seas and bays for example where er addition processes , I E er salts which have been eroded from river water , may alter the composition . |
| 4 | Such research is necessary for understanding the mental processes involved in object recognition ; how object recognition may develop ; and , how such recognition breaks down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 5 | But one must still be wary the fact that although we 've got this nice electric gadget , that we drop the probe into a bucket of water and it gives us er a salinity it is still entirely dependent on this ratio and this ratio is based on the constancy of composition which is very good for open ocean waters but breaks down in coastal waters where erosional processes , where fresh water additions and the sediment loads of the rivers may actually alter this ratio , okay ? |
| 6 | However , even this breaks down in some cases — for instance , in the form of hypercholesterolaemia due to a low density lipoprotein receptor defect , the pathology is quantitative , and introducing a normal gene may improve the prognosis , even in adults in whom the disease is dominant . |
| 7 | erm we 're not gon na go mad knocking picture frames down in that room , it 's too much of a big job |
| 8 | Example ( 3 ) falls down in this respect in that it includes two different activities and outcomes : ‘ to draw up a plan ’ , and ‘ to execute it ’ . |
| 9 | As your plane touches down in historic Aberdeen , the stress and strain of the city become a distant memory … |
| 10 | This clamps down in three ways . |