Example sentences of "have [vb pp] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a team of eminent academics , from Germany , France , Spain , Italy and Britain , an overall editor in the shape of Jean-Baptiste Durosell , former professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne , and the backing of a powerful group of international publishers , he attempted the task of assembling , in one substantial but accessible volume , a distillation of all the elements , chronological , geographical , ethnographic , cultural , philosophical , spiritual , which have blended down the centuries to create the state of ‘ Europeanness ’ . |
| 2 | The UVA rays have broken down the elastin fibres , or support structure of the skin , resulting in severe premature skin ageing . |
| 3 | They have let down the public and also let down colleagues who , in the local media and in some national programmes such as ’ Newsnight ’ , have succeeded in giving a more accurate and balanced picture of events . |
| 4 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 5 | Stock analysts have written down the bank 's net asset value by a correspondingly precise sum . |
| 6 | The British banks which have written down the value of their loans most aggressively may be attracted by the fund , says Jim Mellon , a director of Tyndall . |
| 7 | The fists have rattled down the shins |
| 8 | Both for different , but similar , reasons have turned down the chance of participating in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in July . |
| 9 | Very few have turned down the offer but anyone interested can contact the operators of the train on for up to the minute information . |
| 10 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |
| 11 | Equally , the whole House will have seen for itself how far we have moved down the Order Paper today and that I have called a number of English Members on hospital trust matters . |
| 12 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 13 | Press it flat with the seam you have sewn down the back of the head of the puppet . |
| 14 | There is also the adjective so-called , which in a comparably explicit way calls into question the relation between an entity and the description or properties which might be supposed to belong to it : ( 42 ) it is the so-called liberals who have closed down the press The author of this sentence is not casting doubt on the existence of the people he is writing about , nor on the existence of such properties as may be characterized by the word liberals ( nor for that matter the existence of people who might be so described ) but only on the validity of the relationship between the description " liberals " and the people who are acting as censors in the situation portrayed by this particular sentence . |
| 15 | They have advanced down the Asmara road in the past four weeks and are now reported to be operating south of Dese . |
| 16 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
| 17 | Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage . |
| 18 | We have nailed down the lid on the recession . |
| 19 | Manpower productivity has continued to rise and we have brought down the price of electricity in real terms since 1958 when the CEGB was established . ’ |
| 20 | In recent years other radio astronomers in Cambridge and New Mexico have pinned down the positions of previously unidentified galaxies with increasing accuracy . |
| 21 | There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . " |
| 22 | Police have scaled down the search for a multiple rapist saying they 've no new leads to follow . |
| 23 | Police have scaled down the search for a man who commited at least two rapes , because they have no other leads to follow . |
| 24 | Time and again we have put down the markers and placed on record that we would regard it as a perfectly reasonable alternative to what exists now if there were a series of companies throughout Scotland which represented the ownership of those at present employed by the Scottish Bus Group under the same conditions as at present and with the same commitment to the current level of services . |
| 25 | Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group . |
| 26 | The crabs have climbed down the cliffs , for their eggs must be deposited directly into the sea if they are to hatch . |
| 27 | Various constructions of people with learning difficulties have existed down the ages as society has attempted to define and make sense of patterns of behaviour which differ from the norm . |
| 28 | But at least drugs stopping the development of full-blown AIDS have kept down the death toll in the West . |