Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 2 | Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish . |
| 3 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 4 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 5 | The pace of technological innovation in manufacturing does not seem to be slowing down . |
| 6 | The axial rotation rate of the Earth is directly observed to be slowing down , such that the sidereal axial period is lengthening by about 1.5 × 10 -5 second per year . |
| 7 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 8 | What was more the train appeared to be slowing down quite markedly . |
| 9 | What was more the train appeared to be slowing down quite markedly . |
| 10 | I 've turned the taps on to refill it and the pressure taps they 're in there till we fill the I was going round , finding trickle here I was going round bleeding all the radiators , the whole system had to be drained down ! |
| 11 | Many people want to help but just do n't want to be bogged down with wasteful committee meetings every week for years . |
| 12 | ‘ The court must take a broad view of the decision and not allow itself to be bogged down in minutiae , or led into the error of taking over the role of a fact finding tribunal . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is going to be bogged down unless the UN can get things moving with political and military action to make the peace plan work . |
| 14 | After his return to England , he explained to Dorothy Pound that her husband needed somehow to be calmed down . |
| 15 | One pupil told her grandmother , who was so shocked she had to be calmed down by her son and daughter-in-law . |
| 16 | Victor concentrated ; asked for the lamp to be turned down low . |
| 17 | Two in five employers said that a woman the same age and with the same skills as a man would be more likely to be turned down because of her age . |
| 18 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 19 | The consequences of them wanting the drafts to be turned down . |
| 20 | They 'd got to sit up and lean against their pillows and their sheets had got to be turned down . |
| 21 | If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one . |
| 22 | Big organic molecules , and especially the nucleic acids of which genes are made ( see p 5 ) , are liable to be broken down by high-energy radiation , and in particular by the ultraviolet ( W ) light that is a component of sunlight . |
| 23 | The total task needs to be broken down into small easily achieved wins , eg every teacher will be in the playground five minutes before the bell goes to greet children and parents , four children from each class will have their names entered in the ‘ Gold book ’ for good work or praiseworthy actions , any child in hospital for more than one night will receive ‘ get well cards ’ from the class and a visit by a member of staff , the entrance hall is cleared of clutter and made more welcoming for visitors . |
| 24 | Each priority will have to be broken down into manageable tasks and the methods for carrying them out and reviewing them identified . |
| 25 | It only requires behaviour to be broken down into some specifics , the equivalent of building blocks , and for those specifics to be cast into a coherent plan of action . |
| 26 | It follows that such noisy groups of youngsters whether in canoes , on cycles or on foot , need to be broken down into smaller groups each controlled by a responsible competent leader or instructor until such time as they become mature canoeists and are able to appreciate the magic and wonder of their surroundings . |
| 27 | Why , even plastic components are coded , enabling the polymers to be broken down , so they can be used again . |
| 28 | Does it feel like you created something that 's got to be broken down now ? |
| 29 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 30 | This suggests that , in order to develop pupils ' grasp of the concepts , the criterion needs to be broken down into several more basic criteria relating to space-covering aspects and terminology . |