Example sentences of "down [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is correct for most of the chapter with unc taken as a constant but breaks down for ferromagnetic materials , which will be discussed in Section 3.11 . |
| 2 | Anyone sitting down for extensive periods ( as we all had to do in our school days ) would have to tense many of the body 's muscles in order to sit up straight . |
| 3 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 4 | This type of information used to be held on an IBM mainframe computer , but this closed down for financial reasons . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Forman has decided to step down for personal reasons . |
| 6 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 7 | avoid sitting down for long periods |
| 8 | Avoid sitting down for long periods without a break . |
| 9 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel that the trading standards officers have exceeded their authority by requiring Mr Wilson to conform with standards laid down for new stations and not established premises . ’ |
| 11 | Yes it 's now going to take two years longer I think than was originally er contended , to what extent is this due to technical difficulties and to what extent is it due to one of our partners and Germany one 's thinking of in particular , wishing to slow the programme down for fiscal reasons ? |
| 12 | However , at one stage , different conditions were laid down for different nationalities : a national plebiscite was demanded in order to ratify independence for Poland , Courland and Lithuania , whereas a vote of workers alone was required for the Ukraine , the Caucasus republics and Latvia . |
| 13 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're desperate to put that right because we do n't want to go down as one-season wonders . |
| 15 | When the Rolling Stones leapt on stage in jeans and open necked shirts they were immediately marked down as Dangerous Rebels . |
| 16 | Chase turned out to be a tuba player , of all things , though I would have put him down as backing vocals for The Communards on appearances alone . |
| 17 | Since the beginning of life , Tory mythology has had students down as long-haired layabouts with no sense of duty , patriotism or where the bathroom is . |
| 18 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 19 | Stunned , he looked down through smoke-bleared eyes at the shotgun in his hands . |
| 20 | And now the Enstrom was rattling above the towers and spires of Cambridge , and they could see the shining curve of the river , the bright autumnal avenues leading down through green lawns to miniature hump-backed bridges , King 's College Chapel upturned and slowly rotating beside its great striped square of green . |
| 21 | Sections were dewaxed and taken down through graded alcohols ; endogenous peroxidase activity was blocked by incubating the sections in 3% hydrogen peroxide and methanol for one hour . |
| 22 | Where the trees finished the track dipped sharply down through neglected fields to a narrow valley watered by a stream . |
| 23 | France has thought about reviving Superphenix , its experimental fast reactor , which was shut down after technical mishaps . |
| 24 | The Three Kings made the final 8 of the competition last year , this year it won hands down after seperate visits from 5 judges , arriving and leaving unannounced . |
| 25 | The 320SLi 's power-management features include the ability to configure the BIOS to automatically shut parts of the machine down after specified internals of inactivity . |
| 26 | The water is a muddy brown colour , fining down after heavy rains , and three continuous nights of hard frost have frozen the margins . |
| 27 | His B–17 went down after continual attacks , the fighters still firing into him as he continued to fall , until the aircraft suddenly exploded . |
| 28 | Subsequently , selected documents were released from the presidential archives , apparently implicating Gorbachev in taking part in or in concealing information about various episodes of Soviet history , including the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight KAL-007 in 1983 [ see pp. 32513-7 ] , the order for the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 , and direct orders from Stalin for the murder of Polish officers in 1940 ( the Katyn massacre — for April 1990 Soviet admission of responsibility see pp. 37383-84 ) . |
| 29 | The underlying desire , which it disguises but feeds on , is ‘ for a new for a breaking down of environmental barriers , for an aesthetic which is not limited to the sphere of the ‘ artistic ’ ’ ( ibid : 36–7 ) . |
| 30 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |