Example sentences of "down the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Five minutes later Léonie walked carefully down the stone-flagged passage into the kitchen . |
| 9 | Blunset listened carefully , jotting down the odd note in his notebook and headed off down the corridor . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And then Josie whispered , ‘ Follow me , ’ and started down the carpeted stairway to the lower level . |
| 14 | Not Stephanie , she registered automatically , fighting down the lamentable twist of emotion in her stomach . |
| 15 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Necessary truths passed down the female line over centuries , and what does the accumulated wisdom amount to ? |
| 20 | Playing down the trendy aspect of the restaurant , he suggests that it is a family place where locals can come to eat . |
| 21 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Your trousers , which can carry braiding down the outside seam as decoration , should be supported , however , and by braces . |
| 28 | As the last echoes of American drawl died away we scrambled up the final pitch and slithered down the dangerous descent in near darkness . |
| 29 | The German environmental authorities have closed down the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research , a nuclear research centre based in East Berlin after officials discovered massive contamination of the soil on the premises during routine tests . |
| 30 | He marched purposefully down the central aisle of the ward until he found the sister . |