Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cherry and whites were just two points short of victory at Leicester last saturday … they fought back from ten points down with 13 men … |
| 2 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 3 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 4 | Shortly it reappears upon another set of metals , and bears down upon more trucks . |
| 5 | antarcticus moulting occurs down to lower temperatures than in temperate stocks ( Burn , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Now in the inside of that it opens out , there 's an opening in the bone and that leads down among other things into a tube down here , now that is connected up further down to the sinuses across |
| 7 | The Prime Minister and every member of the government wants to hold fare increases down to reasonable levels and I 'm pleased that er at six percent average , that 's a reasonable contribution by the travelling passenger on British Rail and London Transport to the enormous investment sums that are required . |
| 8 | It is correct for most of the chapter with unc taken as a constant but breaks down for ferromagnetic materials , which will be discussed in Section 3.11 . |
| 9 | It breaks down into two parts . |
| 10 | As before , the calculation breaks down into three parts : Stage 1 : Determination of We use equation ( 9 ) to calculate . |
| 11 | The job breaks down into seven parts : designing the system , removing the old guttering and downpipes , repainting the fascia boards ( this will almost certainly be necessary ) , fixing the new guttering , fixing the new downpipes , connecting to the drains or soakaway and testing the system . |
| 12 | So here we explain how you can complain effectively about anything , from a problem at the bank , an inflated gas bill or a TV set that breaks down after two days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Setting aside the polemical aspects of his argument , Honderich 's thesis boils down to three points . |
| 18 | He succeeds Meuric Rees , the Lord Lieutant of Gwynedd , of Tywyn , who steps down after 12 years as a panel member , the last six as chairman . |
| 19 | The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi . |
| 20 | This clamps down in three ways . |
| 21 | We boiled your memory banks down into two categories — the rest we threw away , sorry to say . |
| 22 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 23 | To sum up , when buying clubs it comes down to two things — that you must seek the judgement of a qualified professional golfer you trust , and the clubs have to feel right and look right for you . |
| 24 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 25 | The wh the whole point is Steve , when it comes down to basic facts , it should have had a proper sealed unit chiller on it when it was new . |
| 26 | runs down to these versions underneath . |