Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | There is no potable water , except what you carry with you , and the equatorial sun beats down with fierce intensity . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | About half Britain 's sulphur rains down as wet deposition and half is dry fallout . |
| 14 | ‘ Meanwhile , the other watcher races down to Far Field and tells me . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As your plane touches down in historic Aberdeen , the stress and strain of the city become a distant memory … |
| 19 | Sunlight penetrates down into clear ocean at most about 200 metres . |
| 20 | SUN UK CLAMPS DOWN ON BOX-SHIFTING VARS |
| 21 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It sounds as though you really do believe that everything comes down to monetary profit and loss . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yeah , yeah it all comes down to personal taste |
| 27 | In the end it comes down to personal prejudice . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Paul Oldfield and Simon Reynolds reckon it all comes down to sexual politics . |
| 30 | That comes down to bad maintenance |