Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wireless , the cinema and television had not yet had the opportunity to smooth down all individuality in the spoken word and local dialect still flourished . |
| 2 | If you are laying new insulation , take the opportunity to put down a vapour barrier of heavy-duty polythene sheeting over the loft floor first , if the plasterboard has no foil face . |
| 3 | The Committee says that the draft Directive has missed the opportunity to lay down ‘ a simple , well-defined framework for the protection of personal data and the regulation of personal data processing , applied on a consistent basis ' throughout the EC . |
| 4 | My staff and I welcome the opportunity to sit down with local exporters and importers to offer not only our own expertise but to provide the link to the truly international help that is available . |
| 5 | There was some laughter and he took the opportunity to sit down . |
| 6 | However , we now have an opportunity to show that Europe can address European problems and that we will intervene in a way that will give the people of Yugoslavia the opportunity to sit down together and find a peaceful solution to the problems . |
| 7 | It was going to be another unusually wind free day when islanders take the opportunity to tie down any loose facings and fencings before the furies of winter . |
| 8 | The opportunity to fly down from Liverpool to a sales meeting at Maidenhead via White Waltham had seemed too good to pass up . |
| 9 | You 'll have the opportunity to write down your objectives . |
| 10 | Ahead of us I could hear the noise of the waterfall — there had been plenty of rain and when we arrived at the foss , the beck that eventually joins the Ure to travel down Wensleydale was hammering over the lip of the force . |
| 11 | Allow the flames to die down with the pan off the heat . |
| 12 | In January Kinkel had encouraged the RAF to lay down arms and declared the government to be " prepared for reconciliation " . |
| 13 | Use the patterns to write down the A three . |
| 14 | It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence . |
| 15 | It really is time for the courts to stamp down on motoring infringments . |
| 16 | He was playing in a match at Windsor Great Park when , after stretching for a ball , he was seen to wince before going to the side of the field to lie down . |
| 17 | Desperate for quiet they called police who told the old-timers to pipe down . |
| 18 | One of the main factors underpinning the share price was an anticipated shortage of water shares , because of the decision to scale down overseas allocations to increase the public offer from 23.5 to nearly 30 per cent of the offer . |
| 19 | The 150th anniversary of the founding of the Great Western was marked in style but to many it will be remembered for the decision to shut down Swindon Works . |
| 20 | The opposite seems to have been the case in the decision to shut down the Unlisted Securities Market and the resulting uproar : a failure to ensure all needs and requirements were still met somehow . |
| 21 | A fire at Block 2 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Oct. 11 was brought under control within four hours and no radiation occurred , but the block was shut down , and on Oct. 30 the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet took the decision to shut down Blocks 1 and 3 by 1993 — two years ahead of schedule . |
| 22 | A further problem for the genealogist was caused by the decision to round down ages over fifteen to the nearest five . |
| 23 | So perhaps another note for Mr Patten 's no doubt very full in-tray is to look again at the decision to close down the body responsible for developing Milton Keynes , and start a new government initiative to encourage more new settlements throughout the region , rather than leaving it to private consortia to chance their arms through a development control system which seems unable to accommodate new initiatives in planning . |
| 24 | Of course , in retrospect , the decision to close down Ryde and Sandown and the cost of the new offices turned out to be a major contributory factor to the problems that we now find ourselves in . |
| 25 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 26 | He leaned over the rail to peer down onto the lower deck . |
| 27 | On the day John-Augustus went char fishing on Buttermere with Mr Robinson and Mary went above the woods to look down on them , Coleridge passed between them . |
| 28 | It also includes the skills of using books , such as using the contents and the index to track down the topics required . |
| 29 | The National Trust has already betrayed its trust , albeit accidentally , by allowing the building to burn down . |
| 30 | Troops quickly dispersed the students , but further unrest was reported the following day , prompting the authorities to close down the country 's universities and colleges . |