Example sentences of "be [verb] down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside . |
| 2 | Chairs must be placed down the room , back to back , one less in number than the players who gallop round them in time to the music . |
| 3 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 4 | Will you be under huge pressures or will you be winding down a bit by then ? |
| 5 | I honestly do n't think that the public walking past the building will actually notice very much , except that in the foyer , they 're going to be knocking down the sort of glass partition , so you , people will see that a little bit is going on . |
| 6 | Lynne plans to marry her fiancee Martin Keene next year — she says she 's determined she 'll be walking down the aisle . |
| 7 | Phillips could be a strong candidate , though Lawrence knows that Pompey 's £1m rated Darren Anderton must be curbed down the right . |
| 8 | No I think it could save lives , because it means that we have immediate access er to what 's going on and so on rare occasions , life and death decisions can be made down the telephone . |
| 9 | A set of pictures can be hung from ribbons or cords — for example , a set of two or three miniature ovals can be hung down a length of ribbon , with a velvet or silk bow positioned at the top of the strip . |
| 10 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 11 | For a daily paper ( given that the images can be transferred down a phone line ) I see it as a Godsend . |
| 12 | Wherever CT scans or the new MRI scans or even ultrasound scans are involved in the management of patients , the images can be transferred down an image link . |
| 13 | Bit of that that we do in year ten eleven can that be transferred down the line so that there 's a similar type of thing |
| 14 | Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has developed new technology that could save lives : it 's called image link and it allows images from hospital scanners to be transmitted down the telephone line to a consultant at the Infirmary . |
| 15 | It seems to be going down a treat . |
| 16 | Alex I 'll be going down the field at lunch . |
| 17 | So it was done away with and another material substituted that could be washed down every day . |
| 18 | Lead-laden exhaust fumes will dissolve in the bubble-fluid , and will be washed down the roadside drains instead of polluting our lungs . |
| 19 | ‘ Our only escape would be to climb down the face of the rock ; but … ’ her eyes rested on Adam ’ … your brother could not do it , mortal . |
| 20 | The data from this is punched into the ORACLE database which physically resides at the lab ( a mile or so away ) , and hence can be pulled down the line to map , say aluminium levels and check water quality against EC regulations . |
| 21 | We seemed to be travelling down a sort of miniature , pinkish Channel Tunnel . |
| 22 | Someone had called an ambulance , and it must be coming down the service road now . |
| 23 | ‘ If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the revolution . |
| 24 | I feel I could play , but if I broke down during the game I would be letting down the team and myself . |
| 25 | In such a context , therefore , it comes as less of a surprise to find Sidney Webb actually advocating a cut in the wages of working youths — in evidence before the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , of all places — so that ‘ the youth , who now has even too much pocket-money , and gets , therefore , too soon independent of home , and too easily led into evil courses ’ could be brought down a peg or two . |
| 26 | Nor to be reminded of their smouldering resentments against this girl of their of age who was so ‘ lady-like ’ and ‘ nose-in-the-air ’ so that they might feel that she needed to be brought down a peg or two . |
| 27 | In turn , similar financial disciplines and targets could be set down the line , ‘ rewarding and punishing individual operations according to risk performance ’ . |
| 28 | The stream may be followed down the field to a lateral path which crosses it by yet another God 's Bridge , a stone arch formed by nature . |
| 29 | Let bourgeois philosophy be cudgelled and smashed by the Revolution " , when he uncompromisingly asserted : " Let us have the courage to be crude : let the spirit of subtlety be swept down the sewer … |
| 30 | The multi-well dishes will fit on to the stage of a binocular dissecting microscope and if angled mouth pipettes are constructed the entire procedure can be viewed down the microscope . |