Example sentences of "is [verb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 2 | His feet are wide apart , legs straight , and his head is looking down the pitch over the left shoulder . |
| 3 | The Mimosa is going down the pan faster than Dynorod could . |
| 4 | Cathy Gunn is going down the catwalk in cashmere and has selected Dawson International . |
| 5 | Throughswing By now the ball is flying down the fairway must as you imagined it would . |
| 6 | In serious cases the aim is to shut down the system safely . |
| 7 | Silverpoint can be resharpened on a metal file so that as the silver is worn down the point can be redefined easily . |
| 8 | ‘ What we would like to do , ’ says Dennis Tunnicliffe , ‘ is slow down the rate of growth because my system is full . |
| 9 | All it would do is slow down the rate of change . |
| 10 | Surface organic matter accumulation is reduced but humic material is translocated down the soil profile and stains the subsoils . |
| 11 | Their aim is to keep down the price of meal ! ’ |
| 12 | The cold wind of competition is blowing down the Bahnhofstrasse , Zurich 's bank-strewn high street , just as the bankers ' other problems were growing anyway . |
| 13 | The skill is running down the beach with all your equipment often in a stiff breeze . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart and grip the club in your left hand so that your thumb is running down the shaft . |
| 15 | They let off frequent bursts of fire into the air to remind everyone that the only law in Somalia is administered down the barrel of a gun . |
| 16 | The CCU-CLC is split down the centre over the CGTC dispute . |
| 17 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 18 | Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat . |
| 19 | Luton Town is slipping down the table however ; they lost at Coventry in mid-week and went down one nil at home to Norwich this afternoon , Sherwood on target for the Canaries . |
| 20 | Then , having established a fairly exact area , the next step is to turn down the receiver volume so that you are able to pinpoint the precise spot where the receiver is immediately above the ferret . |
| 21 | Once all the steam is condensed a vacuum is formed under the piston and the piston is forced down the cylinder by steam from the boiler . |
| 22 | The very difficult challenge is to break down the Market Focus concept into components which can reach every individual on the shop floor and in every function . |
| 23 | An important task of the project manager is to break down the project into independent activities , to specify what shall be done and when the work must be finished , and to make agreements with functional managers about their contributions . |
| 24 | Counsel 's aim is to break down the alibi by asking unexpected questions and so getting contradictory answers from the two defendants . |
| 25 | The wire is guided down the hole as the lid closes so it does n't obstruct anything inside the box ; lift out trays can be fitted flush to the top of the box . |
| 26 | It is generally done in a vertical packed bed reactor , in which water is passed down the column , with air passing up the column . |
| 27 | Now scientists working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford believe they 've made a significant discovery in how asthma is passed down the family tree . |
| 28 | A gastroscopy is a diagnostic procedure involving the direct observation of the upper gastrointestinal tract with a flexible fibre optic tube which is passed down the oesophagus . |
| 29 | When a fibreoptic bronchoscope is passed down the tube of the laryngeal mask a dynamic view of the vocal cords is possible in most patients . |
| 30 | The Officer Commanding , Major Mike Lower , is putting down the phone as Captain Tuck-Brown knocks and enters . |