Example sentences of "could be [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 2 | The fascination of the game used to lie in seeing how sides could be broken down . |
| 3 | The whole electoral roll could be broken down into sub groups and the linking feature was the post code — all speakers stressed the importance of capturing this particular piece of information from customers and respondents to questionnaires . |
| 4 | At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y. |
| 5 | Taylor believed in the division of labour since tasks could be broken down into simple repetitive jobs . |
| 6 | The problem of air resistance could be broken down into shape and surface effects . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's such a waste of time when they could be tracking down criminals amount of time . |
| 9 | ‘ We are horrified that such an innocent young lad as our son Craig could be cut down in this way when he was doing humanitarian work , ’ he said . |
| 10 | These formations , 19 divisions in all , were broken within a week at the Battle of Morhange-Sarrebourg by the machine-gun , the second weapon to emerge in great numbers ; with it , entire ranks of advancing men could be cut down . |
| 11 | Spenser advocates that large sections of forest on each side of the road could be cut down to prevent ambush . |
| 12 | As the cohort died out and were not replaced , the asylums could be shut down . |
| 13 | The mine district could be shut down for three months . |
| 14 | * Greenpeace has announced a plan by which the 16 RBMK reactors could be shut down without the loss of net electricity capacity . |
| 15 | Fire stations at Woburn Sands and Wolverton could be shut down if county councillors agree to make cuts in the fire service.But the county says it is trying hard to avoid cuts in that part of the budget . |
| 16 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 17 | Mr Brian Bruno , a member of the association 's executive , said : ‘ There is a fair chance it could be turned down . |
| 18 | No less important , once the electric power could be turned down , the State became responsible for supporting all workers and their dependents for the duration of the strike . |
| 19 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 20 | Your choice therefore could be boiled down to whether you want to start with the " real thing " on video , as an example of what the unit is about , or whether you want to keep the most realistic example for later , to reinforce what has gone before . |
| 21 | It might it would be helpful actually if this could be written down for us . |
| 22 | When the roof of the cooking-stores threatened to blow off , it was his father who held a mat over it , wooden shingles spurting and whirling about him , until the thing could be bound down and weighted . |
| 23 | Among the hardest hit industries were motors , where Ford and Vauxhall on Feb. 7 announced cuts of over 2,000 jobs and around 300 respectively to take effect mostly from late 1992 ; aerospace , with BAe announcing on Feb. 12 some 2,350 job losses in its military and regional divisions ; coal , with several pit closures or staff reductions having been announced in January , and with a prediction by Malcolm Edwards , then British Coal 's commercial director , on Feb. 19 that the corporation could be slimmed down to possibly as few as 12 pits in the next two years ; and steel , where on Jan. 8 British Steel had confirmed the closure by September of the remaining part of its huge Ravenscraig plant in Scotland , with around 1,200 job losses . |
| 24 | They used to come a day or two beforehand , you see , so they could be settled down and then race . |
| 25 | It was a difficult journey , especially in the winter months when the vagaries of intemperate and often violent weather meant that remote airports could be closed down within minutes . |
| 26 | It comes just days after the announcement that even more East Midlands pits could be closed down . |
| 27 | A swimmming pool used by thousands of people could be closed down to save money . |
| 28 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 29 | In the beginning , all carp were streamlined , torpedo-shaped fish , and any variation in girth relative to length ( apart from the difference between mature males and females ) could be put down to the quality of the food supply . |
| 30 | How true the tale of this lemming population might be is beyond verification ; certainly a great deal of the monastic retelling of it could be put down to the strong regional bias of Northumbrian biographers against the strange races of the deep south . |