Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His score of 568 points out of 600 was only seven points down on first position , which was taken by R Jones of Racketts Archery Club , with T Preston of Braintree Archery club second . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | French Professor stands down from British transplant centre |
| 4 | The last American Air Force Squadron at RAF Upper Heyford stands down from active duty today . |
| 5 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 6 | And in fact , when the river rises they it drops down onto that house , and the house next door . |
| 7 | In year two this actually drops down to twelve point six percent and in year three down to nine five percent . |
| 8 | There is no potable water , except what you carry with you , and the equatorial sun beats down with fierce intensity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 11 | until this grows down past that bit . |
| 12 | Fitter Chris Colligan gets down to some steam cleaning |
| 13 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
| 14 | erm we 're not gon na go mad knocking picture frames down in that room , it 's too much of a big job |
| 15 | About half Britain 's sulphur rains down as wet deposition and half is dry fallout . |
| 16 | ‘ Meanwhile , the other watcher races down to Far Field and tells me . |
| 17 | Unless it was somebody we have already used , and that really boils down to one person in York , and she 's shown no signs of applying , so . |
| 18 | He continued : " This experience boils down to one point : we must integrate the fundamental principles of Marxism with the concrete realities of the Chinese revolution and national development and keep to our own road . " |
| 19 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 20 | Much of Husameddin 's argument on the question of Molla Fenari 's death date thus falls down on close examination , but there does remain one compelling piece of evidence for his conclusion , namely the document apparently bearing Molla Fenari " s signature and dated Rabi " II 838/ November 1434 : in a real sense all else depends on this . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Apparently the two suppliers are now agreed ( or have at last been convinced by third parties ) that a unified user environment for their respective Unix implementations , combining shared APIs and front-end elements — from desktop objects down to high-level system administration functions — makes sense . |
| 23 | Sunlight penetrates down into clear ocean at most about 200 metres . |
| 24 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It sounds as though you really do believe that everything comes down to monetary profit and loss . ’ |
| 26 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 27 | The PLAYER is in the downstage corner still ROS comes down to that exit . |
| 28 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 29 | Usually it all comes down to one solution — more money — and when that has been arranged , the battle with the builders is re-arranged to contain the damage . |
| 30 | Yeah , yeah it all comes down to personal taste |