Example sentences of "decide [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 2 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 3 | It is a sad loss to this House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should have decided to lay down the burden of representing the electors of Warley , West . |
| 4 | They decided to scale down the experiment and worked with a thinner piece of palladium , an 8 cm × 8 cm × 0.2 cm sheet rolled into a cylindrical shape , and also lowered the current to less than 0.2 amps instead of the 1.5 amp current that blew up the block . |
| 5 | But in view of the outlook for prices of both oil and gas , the company decided to write down the carrying value of its production , development and exploration assets in an exceptional depletion charge totalling £24½m . |
| 6 | The plant 's operators decided to shut down the reactor and clean the rods . |
| 7 | In May 1979 , because of the militancy of its workforce , IMES decided to close down the plant and move elsewhere . |