Example sentences of "be [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be heard down the entire High Street . |
| 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 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Will you be under huge pressures or will you be winding down a bit by then ? |
| 7 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 8 | She could be trapped down a vertical hole within the burrow system . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lynne plans to marry her fiancee Martin Keene next year — she says she 's determined she 'll be walking down the aisle . |
| 11 | Phillips could be a strong candidate , though Lawrence knows that Pompey 's £1m rated Darren Anderton must be curbed down the right . |
| 12 | The books were , deservedly , enormously successful and stories in the genre have continued to be written down the years and show no sign of drying up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ If this is a survey , should n't you be writing down the answers ? ’ |
| 16 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 17 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For a daily paper ( given that the images can be transferred down a phone line ) I see it as a Godsend . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Guy 's Hospital in London has been rumoured to be heading down the opting out path , although recently a group of consultants at the hospital expressed their opposition to the idea . |
| 25 | It seems to be going down a treat . |
| 26 | look at the money for a moment because if you look , when we come to look at the financial commentary , we will be going down the erm er what we spent our training budget on |
| 27 | Alex I 'll be going down the field at lunch . |
| 28 | So it was done away with and another material substituted that could be washed down every day . |
| 29 | Lead-laden exhaust fumes will dissolve in the bubble-fluid , and will be washed down the roadside drains instead of polluting our lungs . |
| 30 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |