Example sentences of "it be [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 2 | But falling pupil numbers at Soudley Primary School could lead to it being shut down within the next few years . |
| 3 | This is , er , this is the same face as you , yesterday I was on about , we 've tried everything , it 's getting down to that now . |
| 4 | It 's to sit down with the practice manager and say right tell me about these businesses . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's kept down to an absolute bare minimum . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's parked down by your van . |
| 7 | Aimed at the dedicated games player with crisp graphics and rapid scaling , it 's let down by short battery life . |
| 8 | It 's pouring down with rain , bitterly cold , extremely muddy and so far only half the PA 's turned up . |
| 9 | you open the door up and have a look and see it 's pouring down with rain and you do n't like going out today |
| 10 | what 's if it 's pouring down with rain ? |
| 11 | It 's not it 's sitting down to Robert de Niro . |
| 12 | And you can see it 's running down from the bottom , the pressure in n it you see ? |
| 13 | After the logo 's dramatic unveiling on the stage of the New Athenaeum Theatre , there was a ripple of applause — and much muttering about the design , which may lose impact when it is scaled down for reproduction in newspapers and magazines . |
| 14 | A second principle is that a difficult task ( and nobody doubts that dieting can be very difficult ) is far easier to accomplish if it is broken down into small , manageable pieces . |
| 15 | If a sponge is forced through a fine gauze sieve so that it is broken down into separate cells , these will eventually reorganise themselves into a sponge , each kind of cell finding its appropriate place within the body . |
| 16 | It is broken down into three categories : |
| 17 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 18 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 19 | As heir to the droit morale and guardian of the Magritte estate , Charly Herscovici explained that ‘ Inheriting this intellectual property makes me responsible for protecting the artist and his work , and ensuring that it is handed down for posterity . |
| 20 | Some experienced foilers hold onto the spar end of a Flexifoil , shaking it while nearly vertical then when air-filled , it is brought down to the horizontal for the assisted launch . |
| 21 | The pressure exerted on that front foot when it is brought down in the bowling action is something like 10 times the bodyweight . |
| 22 | Institutions might even consider sanctions : museums could refuse to lend to an exhibition if the public body behind it is falling down in its conservation duties ( a recent likely candidate for boycotting would have been the Titian exhibition in Venice in 1989 ) . |
| 23 | Suck all the air out from under the plastic so it is forced down over the wooden former . |
| 24 | Bret , more determined than ever to get to Earth to warn the authorities that Chen is a traitor ( he has Marc Cory 's tape ) , has to work with Steven on some rapid repairs to the space vessel when it is forced down onto the prison planet Desperus . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the bank said it is to cut down on queues forming in branches and delaying service to its customers . |
| 26 | erm and I think that if it is pulled down for this new development , in ten year 's time we will look back and we will say ‘ Why did we do this ? |
| 27 | The steady release and peak indicates the best way to use this manure : if it is put down at the end of March , the peak comes towards the end of June . |
| 28 | Not that it was slow down in the sense of Do n't go too fast physically . |
| 29 | Hoomey was splashing away on his third length when Nutty , getting bored , got up to fetch a toffee out of her blazer pocket where it was tossed down under the cupressus hedge . |
| 30 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |