Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] down in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The court must take a broad view of the decision and not allow itself to be bogged down in minutiae , or led into the error of taking over the role of a fact finding tribunal . |
| 2 | However , the type of cynicism greeting the arrival of Haines , who was officially introduced to the media yesterday on his second day in office , smacks very much of a ‘ Pavlov 's dogs ’ response which assumes every move the Club makes is anachronistic and autocratic and therefore automatically to be shot down in flames . |
| 3 | Staffel , was seen to be shot down in 6G + GT by Hurricanes . |
| 4 | We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth . |
| 5 | In his anxiety he often allowed himself to be beaten down in price . |
| 6 | The twentieth century may seem threatening at times for someone with these problems , but at least you are not likely to be struck down in your prime by cholera , smallpox or bubonic plague , and there is little risk of being eaten by lions . |
| 7 | Anyone brave enough to approach her and suckle one of her wizened breasts will gain a wish , though they are more likely to be struck down in terror . |
| 8 | In pre-summit manoeuvres , European trade union leaders also warned of the ‘ danger of social strife ’ if the 1992 market arrived without proper social protection for workers and criticised France for allowing the Charter to be watered down in a doomed effort to win Mrs Thatcher 's support . |
| 9 | It was reported on March 14 that all military exercises were soon to be scaled down in response to the diminishing threat from the Warsaw Pact . |
| 10 | The inclusion of this statement suggests that , while the theology faculties of Oxford and Cambridge universities remained firmly committed to the doctrines of predestination and assurance , some other Jacobeans , including perhaps James I himself , believed that the more extreme implications of these beliefs needed to be played down in order to make them more palatable to the laity . |
| 11 | When the inhabitants of a country were nomadic they had to be tied down in order to ensure that the land was properly exploited , but because in Russia they were predominantly sedentary state institutions could monitor their activity . |
| 12 | To straighten the data in figure 11.13 , for example , the curve has to be pulled down in the Y -direction and up in the X -direction ; linearity will therefore probably be improved by raising the Y variable to a power lower down on the ladder and/or by raising the X variable to a power higher up on the ladder . |
| 13 | This windmill was the last of the Dutch barn type left in England and was in use until 1930 , but had to be pulled down in 1945 as it was in danger of collapse . |
| 14 | Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression . |
| 15 | Dostoevsky owed a lot to Molière who is to be met in the notebooks but not to be pinned down in the major fiction . |
| 16 | The explanation of these variations is that , in the Siamese cat , a lower skin temperature causes more pigmentation to be laid down in the growing hairs . |
| 17 | Although the passages to which I first referred support the conclusion reached by Hoffmann J. as to the effect of the judgment of the Court of Appeal , I do not think that reading the judgment overall such a limitation to ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge ’ was intended to be laid down in Cloverbay . |
| 18 | Since the mere association of words will not unambiguously point to meaning , the words need to be set down in a particular arrangement . |
| 19 | Here , operational procedures have to be set down in advance in order to specify areas of accountability and standards of performance ; there must be a monitoring system to feed back information on performance to the right authority centres , and arrangements to correct operational activity in the light of any shortcomings . |