Example sentences of "be [to-vb] down the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 2 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 3 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 4 | A natural tendency in times of recession is to batten down the hatches and look after our own needs , but as we sold raffle tickets in aid of our livestock projects in Uganda , people at the Royal certainly supported our scheme with cheerful generosity . |
| 5 | The objective this time is to shift down the injections line or to shift up the withdrawals line by the full amount of the inflationary gap . |
| 6 | The instinct of Eva 's husband , Bee , is to tone down the services and comply with the law . |
| 7 | The second is to lay down the ground-rules for generalizing from one set of conditions to another , for example , from the laboratory to the real world . |