Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.

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1 First there is an enthalpy change when the ionic lattice in the solid breaks down .
2 We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route .
3 Leaves , however , tend to be preserved in the deposits laid down in lakes and the like .
4 Rory stretched her arms up over her head , revelling in the warmth beating down on her near-naked limbs .
5 There really is n't much point in the adventurers sitting down to read ( takes too long ) or taking books away .
6 The Barrington Sports Centre in the Algarve laid down a first-class pitch and I arranged a game for the Lord 's Taverners against a Portuguese Invitation XI to open up the ground .
7 Gillard even considers that the hospital was in the vanguard of therapeutic optimism in the 1950s , ‘ being one of the first in the country to pull down the perimeter wall and unlock the wards , encouraging patients to mix freely ’ .
8 We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train .
9 This is reflected in Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act in the procedures laid down for dealing with the exclusion of pupils from school and with the appeals which might arise from exclusion .
10 She heard the man in the mask sliding down slowly and knew she should try and make a run for it but her ankle was already swelling inside her Reebok .
11 The opposite seems to have been the case in the decision to shut down the Unlisted Securities Market and the resulting uproar : a failure to ensure all needs and requirements were still met somehow .
12 The big one in the centre tumbles down into a pool where goldfish swim .
13 One of the boys in the back wound down his window and spat on to the roadside .
14 The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences .
15 The young child familiar with the nursery rhyme : The Man in the Moon Came down too soon And asked the way to Norwich sees a jovial face .
16 And in THE STARS SHINE DOWN ( HarperCollins , £14.99 ) , the familiar ingredients of sex , money and power are there in abundance .
17 It was whistling slightly , as some part hidden in the cowlings cooled down .
18 I put my hand in the water trickling down the rock and put it on to Zoe .
19 Revisionist work has still to be drawn together into a full-scale synthesis , in part no doubt , because the quantity of new doctoral research in the field slowed down in the early 1980s .
20 The more a theory claims , the more potential opportunities there will be for showing that the world does not in fact behave in the way laid down by the theory .
21 A strong gatekeeper role will limit sales access to influencers and decision takers in the way laid down by company policy , and it may not be until that policy is changed that an individual supplier may be permitted sales access to present his wares .
22 Following a decision earlier in the year to scale down its workstation business , ( UX No 368 ) Solbourne Computer Inc , Longmont , Colorado , has pulled the plug on its direct sales operations in Europe , claiming ‘ lack of business . ’
23 The solutions in the end come down to not over-grazing , managing the water supplies and choosing appropriate crops .
24 At the same time , having in the end faced down the rebels and preserved the loyalty of the army , he had the opportunity to push ahead with his policy .
25 The APU document , for example , is at pains to try and disentangle the two , but in the end comes down in favour of artistic development as being the only aspect that can reliably be assessed .
26 Though Dykstra is confident Motherwell will avoid relegation — ‘ we have too many good players in the side to go down ’ — his manager was disappointed they had taken only one point .
27 Mr Major — salary £76,234 — hopes that with Ministers taking a lead in the bid to keep down wages the nation can be persuaded to swallow the bitter pill .
28 But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life .
29 Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond .
30 Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't .
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