Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 2 | The whole electoral roll could be broken down into sub groups and the linking feature was the post code — all speakers stressed the importance of capturing this particular piece of information from customers and respondents to questionnaires . |
| 3 | At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y. |
| 4 | Taylor believed in the division of labour since tasks could be broken down into simple repetitive jobs . |
| 5 | The problem of air resistance could be broken down into shape and surface effects . |
| 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 | The mine district could be shut down for three months . |
| 8 | * Greenpeace has announced a plan by which the 16 RBMK reactors could be shut down without the loss of net electricity capacity . |
| 9 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 10 | Your choice therefore could be boiled down to whether you want to start with the " real thing " on video , as an example of what the unit is about , or whether you want to keep the most realistic example for later , to reinforce what has gone before . |
| 11 | It might it would be helpful actually if this could be written down for us . |
| 12 | Among the hardest hit industries were motors , where Ford and Vauxhall on Feb. 7 announced cuts of over 2,000 jobs and around 300 respectively to take effect mostly from late 1992 ; aerospace , with BAe announcing on Feb. 12 some 2,350 job losses in its military and regional divisions ; coal , with several pit closures or staff reductions having been announced in January , and with a prediction by Malcolm Edwards , then British Coal 's commercial director , on Feb. 19 that the corporation could be slimmed down to possibly as few as 12 pits in the next two years ; and steel , where on Jan. 8 British Steel had confirmed the closure by September of the remaining part of its huge Ravenscraig plant in Scotland , with around 1,200 job losses . |
| 13 | It was a difficult journey , especially in the winter months when the vagaries of intemperate and often violent weather meant that remote airports could be closed down within minutes . |
| 14 | In the beginning , all carp were streamlined , torpedo-shaped fish , and any variation in girth relative to length ( apart from the difference between mature males and females ) could be put down to the quality of the food supply . |
| 15 | How true the tale of this lemming population might be is beyond verification ; certainly a great deal of the monastic retelling of it could be put down to the strong regional bias of Northumbrian biographers against the strange races of the deep south . |
| 16 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 17 | She wondered how long ago it had begun and how many of her difficulties could be put down to whatever was the matter with her . |
| 18 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 19 | It 's success could be put down to the hard sell . |
| 20 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |
| 21 | Erm if Z X equals Z Y is when that 's the maximum , then Z X times Z Y is either could be put down as Z X times Z X or Z Y times Z Y cos they 're both the same . |
| 22 | Or they could be put down by other people . |
| 23 | Both these cars were fitted with Spencer track brakes , which could be wound down onto the rails when descending the hill . |
| 24 | A track wide enough for a tractor could be taken down to the road . |
| 25 | Given the will , they could be pulled down within four hours . |
| 26 | Fuchs believes the time could be brought down to nanoseconds . |
| 27 | If Haser could be brought down by the Swiss for money-laundering , so the theory went , then he would have no reason to dig the hole he was in any deeper by embarrassing the CIA with gratuitous revelations about the agency 's arms deals with Saddam Hussein . |