Example sentences of "down for [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 . |