Example sentences of "down [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leak took place in a " hot cell " , used for treating highly radioactive waste , during a switch to an emergency power system while the main power was shut down during construction work . |
| 2 | It was in the bag by half-time , when Bob Phillips touched down for try number 3. 22-9 the final score and the final verdict of coach Keith Richardson . |
| 3 | the cherry and whites pack bulldozed their way to the line and sure enough after lots of huff and puff pushed over and touched down for try number three … |
| 4 | Publishers and film-makers are already beating his door down for blockbuster number two . |
| 5 | If you had a face like that you 'd be down for plastic surgery tomorrow would n't you ? |
| 6 | Sometimes it is hard to love a rebellious and rude teenager , to endure the appalling racket of pop music , to cope with disobedience and flagrant disregard of rules laid down for family life . |
| 7 | The name of each roundabout will be placed above advance direction signs only when these have to be taken down for maintenance work , so cutting down on costs . |
| 8 | Scarborough lifeboat was launched yesterday to go to the aid of a motor cruiser Sea Spray after it broke down off Cayton Bay . |
| 9 | Labour 's defeat led Neil Kinnock on April 13 to announce that he would resign as party leader as soon as practicable ; Roy Hattersley would also stand down as deputy leader . |
| 10 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 11 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 12 | Er , literacy is it 's one of the general skills , I 'm sure it 's down as literacy numeracy 's the other one |
| 13 | In a controversial decision on Feb. 23 , Elisabeth Kopp , who had stepped down as Justice Minister in January 1989 [ see p. 36473 ] , was acquitted by the criminal law division of Federal Supreme Court ( Bundesstrafgericht ) on charges of violating professional secrecy . |
| 14 | or write you down as time scale , you 'd presumably talking about planning up to six weeks perhaps before she trots around . |
| 15 | Mr Krenz , sitting dejected among the delegates in the penultimate row of the sports hall where the congress was held , stepped down as party leader a week ago . |
| 16 | Mr Krenz , sitting dejected among the delegates in the penultimate row of the sports hall where the congress was held , stepped down as party leader a week ago . |
| 17 | President Arístides Maria Pereira announced at an extraordinary congress of the PAICV on July 26 , 1990 , that he was stepping down as party leader as a first step towards the ending of one-party rule , declaring that the President had to be above party politics . |
| 18 | Hayling was a brilliant pupil at school and was soon marked down as Oxbridge material . |
| 19 | throw it down as ground bait |
| 20 | Gradually vanishing , as governments grow more sensitive and put it down as summer diarrhoea . |
| 21 | Though the journey from Godolphin 's house in Primrose Hill to the Tabula Rasa 's Tower was short , and Dowd got him up to Highgate on the dot of six , Oscar suggested they drive down through Crouch End then up through Muswell Hill and back to the Tower , so that they 'd arrive ten minutes late . |
| 22 | Down through Midland Station and all down there . |
| 23 | Production up and losses down after QA project |
| 24 | Knowing how these processes are organized will help us develop better computer systems for object naming , in addition to helping us understand how object naming develops in children , and how it can break down after brain damage . |
| 25 | I think from time to time , little bits of the Government do work reasonably well , and do respond reasonably well to county council and local authority initiatives , and although I could n't pretend that a hundred and , that twenty- five thousand pounds is going to solve the unemployment problem in Wiltshire , nor indeed solve the problem being created by the run- down of defence industry , nevertheless , I think credit should be given where credit 's due . |
| 26 | As early as January 1951 , 101 Squadron had two Meteor F.4s on charge as part of the run down of Lincoln strength ready for the concentration on jet re-role . |
| 27 | This is both convenient and desirable ; it is part of the process of the whittling down of state power and interference , a cardinal item on the Thatcherite agenda . |
| 28 | The plight of the poor was ameliorated by the slowing down of population growth during the second half of the seventeenth century and by simultaneous improvements in agricultural production techniques and employment opportunities offered by rural industries . |
| 29 | Striking down of Louisiana abortion law |
| 30 | Striking down of Guam law — Renewed protests outside clinics |