Example sentences of "[adv] bring down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the risk-free hedge is seen to produce a greater return than the risk-free rate then arbitrage will take place as investors offer to write more calls and so bring down the price of the option . |
| 2 | It is , inevitably , a shoddy , plastic , giveaway affair , with a spring arrangement housed within , purportedly to bring down the ballpoint . |
| 3 | Mr Craxi thinks the new rules would penalise smaller parties such as his own ; hence the speculation that he would rather bring down the government than allow the referendums to happen . |
| 4 | This time the ascension does not bring down the curtain on the life of Jesus ; instead , the curtain goes up on the life of the Church . |
| 5 | MARTINA NAVRATILOVA yesterday revealed that she will finally bring down the curtain on her incredible career at the end of next year . |
| 6 | ITV last night finally brought down the curtain on Highway — the early evening Sunday ‘ God slot ’ . |
| 7 | The Balkans underwent successive crises of competing nationalisms , one of which finally brought down the pre-1914 structure of European power . |
| 8 | He claimed that his intention was not to bring down the government but merely to remind his brother of his election pledge to root out official corruption . |
| 9 | The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes , claiming kinship with those Huns who briefly occupied the Danubian basin in the fifth century and who helped finally to bring down the edifice of Roman power in the West . |
| 10 | Then , as the players came thundering down the boards , she joined the stampede , trying to steal the ball and nearly bringing down the pony of a fat child with pigtails , whose mother promptly started yelling at Daisy . |
| 11 | In the same memorandum of April 1986 that eventually brought down the whole house of cards — the memorandum that mentioned the diversion of funds to the contras — an extraordinary phrase appeared : ‘ The Iranians have been told that our presence in Iran is ‘ a holy commitment ’ . ’ |
| 12 | Masturbation was most often used to demonstrate how the transgression of divine law inevitably brought down the wrath of God : ‘ For he that soweth his flesh , shall of the flesh reap corruption . ’ |
| 13 | He also sowed clusters of caltraps , spikes projecting upwards to bring down the cavalry . |
| 14 | ‘ Even bringing down the charges to £4 means the council will be incurring a £40,000 loss . |
| 15 | So far from sending prices up , the abolition of licensing would immediately bring down the market price of existing houses and would in a short time begin to make an impression on the costs of new ones ; for the pressure of demand for new houses at a cost of nearly £2,000 apiece for a council-type is , in our opinion , very limited . |
| 16 | Do n't bring down the box just bring something , one thing . |
| 17 | Rober Mazur can reasonably claim to have done more than anyone else to bring down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |