Example sentences of "down the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The process is repeated down the entire column of figures . |
| 3 | She gulped down the proffered glass of Coca-Cola quickly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not Stephanie , she registered automatically , fighting down the lamentable twist of emotion in her stomach . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Playing down the trendy aspect of the restaurant , he suggests that it is a family place where locals can come to eat . |
| 11 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 12 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 13 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 14 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 15 | The tendency of historians to play down the general effect of the Combination Laws seems rather insensitive to the feeling of oppression widely found in these manufacturing districts . |
| 16 | As the teeth sink into the flesh , the pressure of this action squeezes venom out of the glands and down the hollow tubes of the paired fangs . |
| 17 | Five minutes later a plastic bag containing his wet , bloodstained pyjamas and a bottle of antiseptic fell on his bed and he heard Murray 's heavy footsteps retreat down the bare boards of the corridor . |
| 18 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 19 | He marched purposefully down the central aisle of the ward until he found the sister . |
| 20 | More experimental work in oils runs down the central spine of the exhibition including as it does both the ring form Sea and Rocks ( 534 ) and the hessian Collage in Brown of Trees ( 34 ) . |
| 21 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 22 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |
| 23 | Well do I remember walking up and down the hilly streets of San Francisco , and also attending a performance of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , with that debonair veteran Frenchman Pierre Montreux conducting . |
| 24 | This all reached a peak in 1988 when piss-filled cider bottles rained down the hapless likes of Meatloaf ( who ran away ) and Bonnie Tyler ( who did n't ! ) . |
| 25 | The weight of the wasp upon its lower lip brings down the upper lip of the flower containing the anthers , to dust the wasp 's back liberally before his eventual , disappointed departure to another flower , carrying the orchid pollen with him . |
| 26 | The corrie looks terrifying from its base , and indeed I would hazard a guess that avalanches are pretty fond of rumbling down the upper reaches of it after spring snow . |
| 27 | When a drifting particle of food touches an arm , tube feet fasten on to it and pass it on from one to another until it reaches the gutter that runs down the upper surface of the arm to the mouth at the centre . |
| 28 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |
| 29 | But in Britain , television , like the cod-liver oil forced down the gagging throats of Welfare-State children , was supposed to be good for you . |
| 30 | Formal speeches were made by practically every one present , and after each speech one had to have a toast and down the requisite amount of liquour after clinking glasses and saying ‘ gambei ’ ( ‘ empty your glass ’ ) . |