Example sentences of "down the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Executive power — the power to set down the broad policies to be followed by the state and the ability to carry out or execute the laws was in the hands of the King , but the means for carrying it out had to be provided by parliament . |
| 2 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 3 | The process is repeated down the entire column of figures . |
| 4 | In the church where I was converted , the service began with a muffled announcement from the back , followed by a lengthy hymn during which thirty men and women in long blue dresses , white nightshirts and yellowing ruffs walked up and down the various corridors in the building singing at the top of their voices . |
| 5 | She gulped down the proffered glass of Coca-Cola quickly . |
| 6 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 7 | Nursing staff at the famous Beeson Ward had hoped for a last minute reprieve , but the Health Authority stuck by its decision to close down the only ward in the country where nurses , not doctors , have the responsibility for admitting and discharging patients . |
| 8 | On Oct. 31-Nov. 1 some 20,000 troops and tanks advanced down the international highway through the Iraqi town of Zakho and took control of about 160 sq km of Iraqi territory on two main fronts , in the Haftanin region north-east of Zakho and another in the Hakurk valley near the border . |
| 9 | Your spine runs down the centre of the body , so the corresponding foot reflex will be found running down the inside edge of both feet . |
| 10 | LENNOX LEWIS last night threw down the ultimate gambit to world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe saying : ‘ If fighting me is so personal , let's do it and send all the money to Africa . ’ |
| 11 | Five minutes later Léonie walked carefully down the stone-flagged passage into the kitchen . |
| 12 | Blunset listened carefully , jotting down the odd note in his notebook and headed off down the corridor . |
| 13 | But do be aware that being a little easy-going in working out and rationing your calories can easily allow you to drift down the slippery slope towards being too easy-going to achieve weight loss . |
| 14 | Many will see this paper as a fundamental attack on the NHS , a means by which a free service slides down the slippery slope of privatisation . |
| 15 | He took possession of her hand with almost too much confidence , drawing her with him down the slippery slope of wet grass towards the waterside . |
| 16 | And then Josie whispered , ‘ Follow me , ’ and started down the carpeted stairway to the lower level . |
| 17 | It is generally supposed that while Paisley , Beattie , Foster , and such people wish to maintain the evangelical ethos , the younger generation of Peter Robinson , Jim Wells , Jim Allister , and others recruited through the Queen 's University branch of the DUP want to create a mass popular party by playing down the evangelical elements in the party platform and by pursuing more respectable methods of political action . |
| 18 | Not Stephanie , she registered automatically , fighting down the lamentable twist of emotion in her stomach . |
| 19 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 20 | Inwardly she trembled , but she managed to glare at him and searched up and down the narrow aisles for the right number . |
| 21 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 22 | When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble . |
| 23 | THE FIRST LAURA ASHLEY ARTICULATED LORRY , WITH ITS BOLD SIXTIES LETTERING , WOULD RUMBLE DOWN THE NARROW LINES FROM CARNO TO LONDON ONLY TO BE ATTACKED BY MARAUDING CUSTOMERS WAITING FOR THEIR FAVOURITE STYLES TO ARRIVE . |
| 24 | I walked the 30 paces down the narrow alley to the very spot where the paper girl first heard the running steps of her assailant before she was knocked senseless . |
| 25 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 26 | The parallels between the methods used to suppress unrest in Lhasa and those used to put down the student-led demonstrations in Peking made the award a double indictment of China 's human-rights record . |
| 27 | Despite the party leadership 's opposition to aspects of Mr Nemeth 's austerity measures , the budget is expected to be approved today , after parliament successfully watered down the controversial changes in housing policy which entailed steep rent rises and a sharp increase in mortgage payments . |
| 28 | He aimed at fifteen miles a day , and they would march down the southern flanks of the Pentland Hills , to Biggar and Broughton and thence by Tweedsmuir to Moffat , at the head of Annandale , some sixty miles . |
| 29 | Necessary truths passed down the female line over centuries , and what does the accumulated wisdom amount to ? |
| 30 | Playing down the trendy aspect of the restaurant , he suggests that it is a family place where locals can come to eat . |