Example sentences of "down in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will not however go down in financial history as a great achiever , and it has to be said ( as recorded later in these pages ) that even under his leadership labour relations were far from perfect . |
| 2 | I do not want to get bogged down in that subject as I want to press on and try to answer questions asked . |
| 3 | Down in that dip we will be completely out of sight . |
| 4 | A State exercising a right by a provision of a treaty to which it is not a party is bound to comply with any conditions laid down in that provision , or elsewhere in the treaty for the exercise of the right . |
| 5 | A whole thicket of broom bushes came down in that slip , as you saw . |
| 6 | And the Japanese advances in eastern Asia nourished the hopes that the United States would be completely tied down in that theatre of war . |
| 7 | And after dinner sometimes he will sit down in that chair and go to sleep ! |
| 8 | Evan points to a hoist that 's slowly lowering the band 's gear down to ground level : ‘ When we played here last year , we were riding up and down in that thing . |
| 9 | After opening this campaign with a 6-0 , 6-1 win over Greece 's Christina Papaduka , Evert said : ‘ I feel I let the team down in that match two years ago . |
| 10 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 11 | erm we 're not gon na go mad knocking picture frames down in that room , it 's too much of a big job |
| 12 | when , do n't forget what I said get down in that garage |
| 13 | ‘ When I 'm coming down in that parachute , I 'm feeling pretty nervous , but it 's wonderful the way I can feel the audience reacting warmly towards me . |
| 14 | Once the crab had been shown by J. V. Thompson in his Zoological Researches ( 1828–34 ) to begin life as a little shrimp-like creature , and the barnacle perhaps more surprisingly to do the same before settling down in middle age , then the unity of plan in the group became more evident . |
| 15 | Even if the plants die down in mid winter , they will sprout again in spring earlier than if they were planted outdoors . |
| 16 | ‘ If ships go down in shallow water , ’ adds Michael Cohen , ‘ cargoes are damaged by the tides . |
| 17 | Our understanding of the vertical ( as opposed to the horizontal ) movements of the lithosphere during continental rupture is largely derived from the interpretation of the sediments laid down in passive margin basins . |
| 18 | The existence of a firm strategy for continuing education may , in theory , preclude the need for re-entry programmes as they exist at present , and it is the job of the members of each National Board to align continuing education needs with the UKCC 's own policies regarding the maintenance and improvement of professional standards as laid down in current legislation . |
| 19 | Shares hit : Wall Street 's 21-point fall sent the FTSE down in early trading . |
| 20 | ALMOST every sector was marked down in early dealing as sellers dominated the market . |
| 21 | Duties and conditions are laid down in greater detail in the accompanying extract from the Decrees and Regulations . |
| 22 | Be careful that you do n't end up writing a novel or get bogged down in pseudo poetry with no end in view . |
| 23 | Hugh Jones ' racing exploits have gone down in tropical history . |
| 24 | This obviously causes a minor slow down in perceived performance as far as the SX chip is concerned , but the percentage difference is small enough to be negligible in real world applications . |
| 25 | Did it come down in remote forest land where it still lay , gradually decaying ? |
| 26 | Suddenly the issue was resolved with terrible finality for them both , as the inner floors gave way and crashed down in flaming ruin . |
| 27 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Hitherto , their duties have been laid down in professional guidance . |
| 29 | On the wall that passes for a kitchen , Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas stare down in fastidious disapproval at Anya 's batterie de cuisine , unfit for whipping up their favourite hashish fudge . |
| 30 | The President , Levon Ter Petrosyan , said that the republic would not observe the five-year transitional period as laid down in Soviet legislation on secession . |