Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] down in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Targets and constraints should be set down in accordance with the ambitions of the development plan . |
| 2 | ( f ) The new partnership agreement Whilst agreements on particular matters should be set down in writing as soon as they have been concluded , that should not be regarded as an adequate substitute for a properly drafted partnership agreement for the new firm to be in place from the outset of business . |
| 3 | Population regulation , however , if it has any advantage at all , can only be a long-term one ; it must therefore be a consequence of individual decisions to emigrate , taken on the grounds that conditions will be better elsewhere , not on the grounds that the population level must be kept down in order for the local resources to be conserved . |
| 4 | I thought she must be coming down in a moment . |
| 5 | If you try to speak to any body you will be ignored , if you get in the way you 'll be knocked down in the wild scramble to get goods away to Paris , London , Brussels , and all the great centres of northern and eastern France . |
| 6 | ‘ We are horrified that such an innocent young lad as our son Craig could be cut down in this way when he was doing humanitarian work , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Although the draft rules may be toned down in theory , overseas tax authorities are well aware of their likely effect and Clinton 's intended enforcement . |
| 8 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 9 | It is the sort of knowledge that may be laid down in rules and can be learned from books . |
| 10 | The rules may be laid down in Standing Orders or may be the custom and practice of the organisation . |
| 11 | Birds would be dropping down in relief in such ‘ fall ’ conditions . |
| 12 | When she spoke to the old maid , she told her that she would be coming down in the morning . |
| 13 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 14 | Two other reactors at the site built to higher standards would be closed down in 1991 [ see also p. 37659 ] . |
| 15 | Yes , of course most people are quite happy for us to write the cards , in which case the appropriate message will be noted down in the book . |
| 16 | And if the Lord Cardinal goes , falling from the heavens like Lucifer , you , the little ones , will be dragged down in his wake ! ’ |
| 17 | There seems every possibility that Trev Proby will be sent down in the near future . |
| 18 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 19 | A dish in any Pacific city east of the longitude of Mexico City — Lima , say , or Quito , or Santiago — will be cranked down in the direction of an equally low point on the eastern horizon — for just as American naval vessels involved in exercises off the Pacific coasts of Peru , Ecuador or Chile are regarded as being part of the US Atlantic Fleet , so communicators , for reasons of pure geometry , think of these countries ' capital cities as part of the Atlantic communications network . |
| 20 | Accounts must follow a format that will be laid down in regulations due to come into force in September 1993 . |
| 21 | If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world . |
| 22 | The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes . |
| 23 | If the inflow falls short of mortgage lending plans a generous cushion of liquid assets can be run down in order to preserve a steady outflow of mortgage lending . |
| 24 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |
| 25 | In many cases the most probable answers can be set down in advance and this helps enormously towards analysis . |