Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning . |
| 3 | It also includes the skills of using books , such as using the contents and the index to track down the topics required . |
| 4 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 5 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 6 | It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task . |
| 7 | She played the message over again , grabbing a note-pad from the desk to jot down the number . |
| 8 | Loper is following up recent research by several scientists , particularly H. Weber and colleagues of the Institute of Toxicology in Zurich , Switzerland and John Brooker at the University of Adelaide , Australia : Weber found that dogs fed massive doses of one type of dioxin , TCDD , detoxified the chemical with the liver enzyme , cytochrome p 450 mon-oxygenase , and Brooker used chick embryos as a source of the enzyme to track down the messenger RNA responsible for producing it . |
| 9 | Cristiani had come under pressure in late October from right-wing elements in his own Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) party and the military to slow down the peace process [ see p. 39137 ] , but his government also came under intense diplomatic pressure at the UN to keep to Dec. 15 as the date for the formal cessation of hostilities . |
| 10 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 11 | So for the the water to go down the current to flow through . |
| 12 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 13 | Er you ca n't imagine this I do n't suppose , but nevertheless it 's true and in a time , the men in the shop they was mass-production , you know what I mean and they wanted this or that or the other , well I had the authority to go down the machine shop and tell them , look here , so and so wants this you do that . |
| 14 | The offer to close down the reactors was conditional on the receipt of economic aid to help modernize Bulgaria 's nuclear industry , which supplied over one-third of the country 's electricity requirements . |
| 15 | ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid . |
| 16 | The FMLN stated that agricultural work and legalized land had to be guaranteed , and accused the traditional oligarchic sector — the country 's major landowners — of exerting pressure on the government to slow down the peace process . |
| 17 | Darlington-based Keepsafe opened a site , without planning permission , on an old foundry site , but land owners , the Teesside Development Corporation , ordered the firm to close down the site . |
| 18 | Not since the demolition gangs had moved into that area south of the river to knock down the old tenements and clear it for redevelopment . |
| 19 | This produces the intense flux of neutrons ; heavy water flows through the reactor to slow down the neutrons so that they react better with the lithium . |
| 20 | Helicopter pilots dumping sand and boric acid onto the reactor to damp down the nuclear reaction were unprotected until they slipped lead plates under their seats . |
| 21 | Just the thing to bring down the evil empire . |
| 22 | BP researchers at Sunbury have joined the hunt to track down the cause of a mysterious illness affecting elephants in Zimbabwe . |
| 23 | Erm , speaking in opposition to the motion to shut down the college . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The ability to break down the analysis by location and function enabled assessments to be made of the likely organisational consequences of a given set of boundaries as well as the effect on the overall and grade specific grading changes . |
| 26 | The ability to cut down the distance signals travel by reducing the size of the computer is limited by the amount of heat the components generate ; a computer that is too small will get too hot . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now is not the time to rip down the wallpaper or tear down walls . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps now is the time to run down the older methods and , if this is not the case , maybe some additional training is required . |