Example sentences of "come down [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 2 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 3 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 4 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |
| 5 | Her hand came down on top of a large bunch of them and she felt a sudden stinging pain . |
| 6 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 7 | ‘ Saunders came down on top of him . |
| 8 | She wound her arms around his neck , eagerly accepting his heated kisses until he lifted her on to the bed and came down on top of her , covering her and dominating her . |
| 9 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 10 | He came down in favour of microkernels , the client-server paradigm , and remote procedure calls . |
| 11 | The two breakaway parties did not affect the result decisively , as most of the " do n't knows " in the opinion polls came down in favour of the Democrats . |
| 12 | On the facts of the case the balance came down in favour of protecting the fair trial . |
| 13 | The committee reported in October 19806 and came down in favour of setting up a national body , to be known as the Committee for Colleges and Polytechnics ( CCP ) which would devise a more rational system of national funding . |
| 14 | In the same way , information about how the National Curriculum Council ( NCC ) came down in favour of more information and factual knowledge in the history curriculum after months of comment and criticism led to a holding of breath as to what precisely would emerge in the shape of revised requirements . |
| 15 | The judge at first instance invoked the wardship powers of the court to protect the girl : he weighed her interests against that of the publishers , and concluded that the balance came down in favour of restraining publication , since the book could be rendered harmless by excising a few paragraphs . |
| 16 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |
| 17 | Something similar and er they came up to the , the great Pacific engines that came on and they , two of them came down in front of the stage , two of them were just a little bit higher up , and on the stage itself , there were scenes done like the hall in the Grand Central Station , New York and er they were , it was either the Ink Spots or some of these dancers that gave a performance , and it was so well put on that you could n't help being impressed by |
| 18 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
| 19 | City sources believe that the Bank of England 's task force will come down in favour of any alternative to Taurus that is cheap and simple . |
| 20 | In carrying out the balancing exercise I , for my part , come down in favour of the freedom of speech even though it may go beyond generally acceptable limits , since there is adequate alternative protection available to a council . |
| 21 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 23 | Similarly , having identified the ideal characters of societas and universitas and recognized the existence of both modes in the history of the European state , it is not clear precisely why Oakeshott comes down in favour of societas . |
| 24 | 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 . |