Example sentences of "down [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Contacts down in New Orleans at the Unix International annual members meeting , where reporters are barred , called in last week as we went to press to say that nothing substantive had happened yet that would move the industry further down the unity path . |
| 32 | 2 Push down the clutch plate ( a ) and draw back the piston rod ( b ) |
| 33 | The notion of putting down the hardcore floor of the hangar using NAM volunteers and not the contractor made it possible to slice £10,000 off the cost of the project . |
| 34 | There was an obvious danger in such a situation — the danger that concern to keep down the compensation bill would affect the ministry 's judgement of the planning merits of particular cases . |
| 35 | The FMLN stated that agricultural work and legalized land had to be guaranteed , and accused the traditional oligarchic sector — the country 's major landowners — of exerting pressure on the government to slow down the peace process . |
| 36 | Cristiani had come under pressure in late October from right-wing elements in his own Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) party and the military to slow down the peace process [ see p. 39137 ] , but his government also came under intense diplomatic pressure at the UN to keep to Dec. 15 as the date for the formal cessation of hostilities . |
| 37 | This sophisticated-looking arrangement actually proved very simple to adjust — you just loosen the recessed screws with a coin and move the belt and harness up or down the base plat to the position you want , then retighten the screws . |
| 38 | Wayne said nothing for a while , and Pete allowed his attention to wander down the inventory list ; his eyebrows raised at the mention of a waterbed , a hi-fi system and a video hookup in the after stateroom . |
| 39 | The resistance was broken when a tiring Ratnayeke was superbly caught by the wicketkeeper Ian Healy , one-handed down the leg side , for 75 after flicking once too often at Greg Campbell . |
| 40 | A large proportion of balls went down the leg side , which was not the ideal means of curtailing the driving of Boon , Briers and Whitaker . |
| 41 | Although the ball might have been slipping down the leg side , Taylor was adjudged lbw by umpire Tony Crafter , who was officiated in his 33rd Test , breaking Bob Crockett 's previous Australian record . |
| 42 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 43 | Hadlee professes great admiration for New Zealand 's wicketkeepers of modern times , the late Ken Wadsworth , and the incumbent record-holder , Ian Smith : ‘ But James had that ability to stand up for the one down the leg side , and the bails would be off in a flash . |
| 44 | Poor umpiring decisions against Smith , Hick and Salisbury , all adjudged lbw to balls drifting down the leg side , did not help England 's cause in the first innings . |
| 45 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 46 | Caught down the leg side , he was n't going to walk , he waited for umpire Bird , and that 's the Lawrence delighted with England of course too , DaSilva , caught down the leg side , a good catch there by Russell and Sri Lanka now a hundred and nineteen for four and DaSilva is out caught Russell , bowled Lawrence for eighteen . |
| 47 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
| 48 | Away he goes again with those huge boots of his , steaming in now to , that 's pitched up , raps him on the pad , ball go , going down the leg side . |
| 49 | The crash also pushed down the output-capital ratio , by an average of one tenth , as excess capacity mounted . |
| 50 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 51 | The capping has brought down the poll tax bill in the borough to £339.22 , a reduction of nearly £14 . |
| 52 | The complexity of decision-making ( eg. to obtain the go-ahead for new projects etc ) slows down the decision-making process , causing unwanted delays . |
| 53 | Sure enough , the battered little red Mini was speeding down the service road , following the same route the ambulance had taken . |
| 54 | Someone had called an ambulance , and it must be coming down the service road now . |
| 55 | In fairness to those whose questions come further down the Order Paper , I propose now to speed up a bit . |
| 56 | I am aware that it is not possible for me to call every Scottish Member at Scottish Question Time , but I thought that it was fair today — I hope that the House will agree — to get as far down the Order Paper as I possibily could . |
| 57 | Equally , the whole House will have seen for itself how far we have moved down the Order Paper today and that I have called a number of English Members on hospital trust matters . |
| 58 | Up and down the country factory meetings debated the agreements and rejected them overwhelmingly . |
| 59 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |
| 60 | The snow crunched a protest under the car wheels , as we turned down the country road which led to our home , thoughts of a hot cup of tea uppermost in our minds . |