Example sentences of "are [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person who is out in the front teaching the class , or directing the piece of work they 're doing , they do , and everybody in it does … the kind of work we do is to do with a group of people … getting into a drama studio , and you know the set-up here ; there 's no uniform , there 's no ‘ Sir ’ or ‘ Miss ’ , it 's all Christian names , and that means that the holds are broken down a lot , so what is done in the end is to produce work which we hope makes statements which come from the pre-occupations , the beliefs , the honestly held beliefs of the people involved , whether they 're working from a text , an interpretation of a text , or whether they 're working from improvisation , doing their own work … so they get constant assessment from that . |
| 2 | Images , feelings and emotions are drained down the cords and into the hands of the Great Enchanter , who crushes them into a frail stream of dust , all that remains of the soul . |
| 3 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 4 | In these cases the chambers are approached down a flight of steps . |
| 5 | Ranchers are tearing down the rainforests to make hamburgers . |
| 6 | Each canon has the following voice ( or ‘ consequent ’ ) only a quaver later and a semitone higher ( if one disregards the fact that the basses are transposed down an octave ) . |
| 7 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 8 | The two ‘ half-pictures ’ are transmitted down a single cable TV channel with normal bandwidth . |
| 9 | All over Central Scotland , men are pulling down the blinds . |
| 10 | A sneaky scramble or climb on Laddow Rocks and you are heading down the eroded Pennine Way track to Crowden and the Longdendale Reservoirs , with the sombre northern slopes of Bleaklow frowning over them . |
| 11 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 12 | always spread a and I I was listening to or or during a programme and it said er , we 're always told how firms are going down the shoot ! |
| 13 | At least not when his creations are going down the Colonel 's own digestive tract . ’ |
| 14 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 15 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 16 | The birds follow the dog and are lured down a wide tunnel made of netting called a pipe . |
| 17 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ We are honing down the cast in order to develop the story lines in more depth . |
| 19 | The first three songs on the album are tuned down a half step . ’ |
| 20 | The famine simply must end today if Koppelaar 's team are to hold down a crucial fourth slot in Pool A which would keep alive their chances of reaching hockey 's premier event for only the third time . |
| 21 | Everton got off to good start but are slipping down the table … |
| 22 | Most are counting down the days . |
| 23 | No , your eyes do n't deceive you — yes , they are floating down the Seine on a double bed ! |
| 24 | As messages are passed down the autonomic nervous system , the blood vessels in erectile tissue everywhere — penis , walls of the vagina , ear lobes , nose ( notice the stuffiness ? ) — are engorging . |
| 25 | Where gas fires are going to be installed , flues can be lined with flexible metal tube liners which are inserted down the chimney , but their life may be shortened by contaminating acids , formed by condensation in the flue combining with the carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide contained in the flue gases . |
| 26 | I 'm me and Colin are settling down a lot compared to what we were five year ago . |
| 27 | If you are touring down a remote gorge do you choose a technique which gives maximum force and a high risk of injury or would you prefer a slightly less powerful stroke and a reduced risk of shoulder dislocation ? |
| 28 | Grip the club so that your thumbs are extended down the shaft and your palms are facing towards your body . |
| 29 | Main Picture Centre : Materials are lowered down a ventilation shaft for Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Junction Canal . |