Example sentences of "down [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
2 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
3 | Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons . |
4 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
5 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
6 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
7 | To get into the medieval way of things and because it 's cheap , we all camp down in the same room hence this is not a society for the bashful ( light sleepers are advised ear plugs ) . |
8 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
9 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
10 | The cost accounts will therefore be closed down on the same date . |
11 | Further down on the same side are the remains of Foxholes Side Lock , which served Foxholes Basin , now filled in. the banks hereabouts are in a poor state of repair and restoration has been in progress between here and the m62 Trans-Pennine Motorway bridge . |
12 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
13 | In the six months to the end of July the group made a profit of £1.18million — 4.4 per cent down on the same period last year . |
14 | March sales at 143,115 were 15.2 p.c. down on the same period a year ago , with Rover showing an alarming 45 p.c. slide . |
15 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
16 | The revenues of both companies were well down on the same month in 1991 , showing a large proportion of their sales coming form the cheaper ranges . |
17 | That comes down to the same problem , that actually |
18 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
19 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
20 | The company is also predicting European prices will come down to the same level as in the US . |
21 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
22 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
23 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
24 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
25 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
26 | Comes down to the same thing in the end . |
27 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
28 | Trotting a bait down at the same depth you have seen them turning very often pays off with a fish or two . |
29 | Arranged them by pushing the ‘ record ’ and ‘ play ’ buttons down at the same time . |
30 | It fills you up okay but runs you down at the same time . |