Example sentences of "[to-vb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem . |
| 2 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 3 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 4 | To catch the offending shrimp , it is often necessary to strip down the entire tank , rock by rock , until it is found . |
| 5 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |
| 6 | If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ? |
| 7 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 8 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 9 | ( For details on how to drain down the central heating system , see Chapter 13 . ) |
| 10 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 11 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 12 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 13 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 14 | If the Minister is saying that the proposal is liable to bog down the entire system and cause administrative chaos , he may be right as regards some of the effects . |
| 15 | You need to jot down the main purpose , headings , ideas … then build your structure before you begin . |
| 16 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 17 | One girl stopped the others to ask advice about how to write down the ghostly sound of a door opening . |
| 18 | Since unionization levels among white-collar workers are about half those for blue-collar in both countries , this shift worked to pull down the average level of unionization even though more white-collar workers started to join unions . |
| 19 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 20 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 21 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 22 | Although the underlying reasons are not fully understood , it does appear that certain female sex hormones are able to damp down the dominant urge . |
| 23 | Helicopter pilots dumping sand and boric acid onto the reactor to damp down the nuclear reaction were unprotected until they slipped lead plates under their seats . |
| 24 | She wanted to set down the southern landscape . |
| 25 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 26 | Of course , you 'd have to track down the right person . ’ |
| 27 | Armed with this information , the genealogist should be able to track down the relevant baptism entry in a parish or nonconformist register in the years before civil registration began . |
| 28 | A special unit set up to track down the missing money has now traced around three hundred million pounds — but there could still be a long legal battle to get some of it returned . |
| 29 | But these days it 's hard to track down the old equipment . |
| 30 | Although you may not be able to track down the precise cause under such circumstances , it can be possible to devise a means of overcoming the problem in most cases of this type . |