Example sentences of "are [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 2 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 3 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 4 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 5 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 6 | If you are walking down into the centre along Avenida do Infante , after the Savoy Hotel you pass the modern Casino Park Hotel and , behind it , the new Casino . |
| 7 | Each line of script represents one second of running time and the words are written down at the normal speaking rate of three per second . |
| 8 | All the normal operating procedures and the emergency operating procedures are written down in the flight manual of an aircraft , one copy of which is carried in the aircraft while another is always available ( to accident investigators , amongst others ) on the ground , and pilots are trained and required to operate their aircraft in conformity with these procedures . |
| 9 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 10 | Their eye-sockets have no bony floor , so when they blink , the eye-balls are drawn down into the skull and make a bulge in the roof of the mouth which squeezes the lump of food to the back of the throat . |
| 11 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 12 | We are going down towards the forest and the Arctic night is awesome . |
| 13 | And the more poor little Britain takes a battering , the more bombs that are called down on the wreck of London , the sooner it will be . |
| 14 | Bright children are dragged down to the lowest common denominator . ’ |
| 15 | Most take the experience with typical British humour and carrying on searching until either the dream home is found or they are worn down by the practicalities of price and location . |
| 16 | Although women state that they are tied down by the responsibility of small children , they also experience satisfaction with several aspects of their role [ which role ? ] . |
| 17 | But they , the Conservatives are cutting down on the health service and everything else and the schools |
| 18 | They are tunnelling down into the sewers and up into the cavity walls and suspended ceilings . |
| 19 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 20 | This ha , es you feel like you are coming down into the ball , which is a more positive feeling . |
| 21 | Victims first know that they are marked down as the tiger 's next meal when those enormously powerful front feet hit them . |
| 22 | Even when trap lines are laid down along the hunting paths of a relatively specialized predator like the barn owl , there may be considerable differences in species proportions represented in the two assemblages . |
| 23 | But it is changed too in that it is not so much the details of infant care that are laid down as the principles which should be followed in deciding the details . |
| 24 | The growth characteristics of the bones are laid down at the time when the pattern is specified and the elements are very small and this early specification will control growth for many years ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 25 | To reduce the possibility of the lining materials , used for the construction of walls and ceilings , contributing to the initial fire spread within the building , performance standards are laid down for the reaction to fire of the materials used for the exposed surfaces . |
| 26 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |
| 27 | Your minimum notice rights are laid down by the Consolidation Act , which in this respect covers almost all UK-based executives , although some classes of employee , including some part-timers , are excluded . |
| 28 | The rules followed are laid down by the Race Walking Association and the International Athletics Federation . |
| 29 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 30 | In assessment of the suitability of a deposit for supplying specific coarse concrete aggregates or finer mortar sands , very precise requirements are laid down by the construction industry . |