Example sentences of "down [prep] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Er , literacy is it 's one of the general skills , I 'm sure it 's down as literacy numeracy 's the other one |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | or write you down as time scale , you 'd presumably talking about planning up to six weeks perhaps before she trots around . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | throw it down as ground bait |
| 17 | Gradually vanishing , as governments grow more sensitive and put it down as summer diarrhoea . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Production up and losses down after QA project |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Because no seismic sources have been detected above sea level in the whole period of observation , we conclude that the fractured region and possibly the intrusion also extend down below sea level . |
| 25 | Whole sections of the City were trampled flat , buildings going down like balsa wood . |
| 26 | In contrast to other proposals , the WARM study comes down against kerbside collection schemes , arguing instead for an intensive network of recycling banks : one for every 400 households for plastics , metals and glass , one for every 2,000 for newspapers and textiles . |
| 27 | The doctor said there was nothing wrong with me , but the Operation Raleigh people rang to warn us : they had been in the rainforest at the same time as us , and 50 to 60 per cent of their people had gone down with river blindness . |
| 28 | I was asked to clean down with blanket wash and then run over with a clean polishing rag . |
| 29 | The small boy at the Green demonstration in the Maldives has no doubt : his home-made banner read ‘ Down with Sea Level Rise ’ . |
| 30 | This can be illustrated by Lord Denning 's approach in Crowther v Shannon Motor Co [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 30 where a used Jaguar car with over 82,000 miles on the clock was driven for three weeks covering 2,300 miles before it broke down with engine seizure . |