Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] [to-vb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gillard even considers that the hospital was in the vanguard of therapeutic optimism in the 1950s , ‘ being one of the first in the country to pull down the perimeter wall and unlock the wards , encouraging patients to mix freely ’ . |
| 2 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 3 | The opposite seems to have been the case in the decision to shut down the Unlisted Securities Market and the resulting uproar : a failure to ensure all needs and requirements were still met somehow . |
| 4 | Following a decision earlier in the year to scale down its workstation business , ( UX No 368 ) Solbourne Computer Inc , Longmont , Colorado , has pulled the plug on its direct sales operations in Europe , claiming ‘ lack of business . ’ |
| 5 | Though Dykstra is confident Motherwell will avoid relegation — ‘ we have too many good players in the side to go down ’ — his manager was disappointed they had taken only one point . |
| 6 | Mr Major — salary £76,234 — hopes that with Ministers taking a lead in the bid to keep down wages the nation can be persuaded to swallow the bitter pill . |
| 7 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 8 | Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men . |
| 9 | Naturalism in a broader sense consists in the attempt to lay down certain fundamental aspects of the good life for man on the basis of considerations of human nature . |
| 10 | yds ) of surface area to which the bacteria employed in the filter to break down the waste products can adhere — and the open construction allows a good supply of atmospheric oxygen to pass through the material . |
| 11 | Uranus , Neptune and your own ruling planet Saturn all exert positive and reassuring influences from September 24th and only after this date will you be in a position to lay down the law personally , professionally or financially . |
| 12 | My father who was not conversant with your rituals , was judged by you to be common ; but you consider me to be your equal at the very moment that I am in a position to look down upon my father who was common , and to be ashamed of my grandfather who was working-class . |
| 13 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 14 | SHOPKEEPERS in the North-East will take a tough line on the sale of solvents in a bid to clamp down on glue sniffing . |
| 15 | Formed this spring , in a bid to break down such oversimplifications , the members of the Bibi Crew are all experienced performers — including actress Judith Jacob ( Carmel in EastEnders ) and Janet Kay , singer of lover 's rock anthem ‘ Silly Games ’ . |
| 16 | A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing . |
| 17 | Today in a bid to keep down the voles , the Department of Transport and the Forestry Commission began placing Kestrel nesting boxes along the M40 motorway . |
| 18 | The magazine carried an article which announced that due to the high cost of electricity , there was a large growth in membership of specialist goldfish societies , as fishkeepers deserted their tropical tanks , in a bid to cut down their electricity bills . |
| 19 | An increasing number of pubs in the Northwich area are barring the younger drinkers on Friday and Saturday nights , in a bid to cut down on trouble . |
| 20 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 21 | As a result of all this , and in an attempt to lay down clear guidelines for Crown Court rulings in future cases the Attorney-General , under s.36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 , referred the decision to the Court of Appeal and ultimately to the House of Lords . |
| 22 | Finally , materials stockpiling was encouraged by the Japanese government in 1972–3 in an attempt to hold down the yen exchange rate . |
| 23 | After throwing the plates on the table , she would rush out into the garden in an attempt to cool down . |
| 24 | Police are now using DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting in an attempt to track down the rapist . |
| 25 | POLICE are examining security videos in an attempt to track down arsonists who set fire to a football ground and laid booby traps just hours before Middlesbrough played there . |
| 26 | He tried to dig his heels into the bed of the trough in an attempt to slow down his headlong rush , but each time the soft bottom gave way and on he went . |
| 27 | The severe artificial banking was removed and in 1967 the lap was extended slightly and a chicane added near the start at Tiergarten in an attempt to slow down the circuit . |
| 28 | In Earls Court in 1966 , before the days of good acoustic panels , we draped silk parachutes from the roof in an attempt to cut down the echo ; nowadays technology helps ! |
| 29 | Both Watanjar and Patkin were leading Khalqis , a detail that was stressed by the government in an attempt to play down divisions within the party . |
| 30 | It was reported on Oct. 14 , 1989 , that the first attempt to bring together COMECON and EC officials in Moscow was effectively boycotted by the EC in an attempt to play down links between the two organizations in favour of developing bilateral relations . |