Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 2 | This improvement in standards can only be put down to cellar training . |
| 3 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 4 | UNSIGHTLY billboards could soon be taken down around Darlington through new powers adopted by the borough council . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 6 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 7 | Granted the rich diversity of the phenomena of the biological world , a disagreement over results can generally be put down to differences between animals ( ‘ species or strain differences ’ , for instance ) or to subtle alterations in experimental conditions , and can therefore be fudged or ignored . |
| 8 | For internal management control purposes a annual budget will normally be broken down into discrete quarterly , monthly or even shorter periods . |
| 9 | The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends . |
| 10 | Certainly the word ‘ romance ’ can not be tied down to any one meaning . |
| 11 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 12 | He argues that the small firms sector is particularly well situated to benefit from the wider enterprise opportunities offered by the single market and should not be tied down by EC red tape . |
| 13 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 14 | Moving upwards , how could she not be dragged down by the truth about Daisy ? |
| 15 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 16 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 17 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 18 | Fibre by definition can not be broken down by our digestive systems , but it can be broken down by normal healthy bacteria in our large bowel . |
| 19 | This network must not be slowed down by bureaucracy , or allowed to become a ‘ gay elite ’ willing to make deals and compromises . |
| 20 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 21 | Sometimes it is , sometimes it is n't , but what black people have to do is to become so well qualified that they can not be turned down on this basis — or at least if they are they can refer it to the Race Relations Board . |
| 22 | Thus , a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and can not be pinned down as a simplistic historical account . |
| 23 | The Queen of Beauty can not be pinned down to one expression , and every female image of beauty that is created is only a single realization of a great range of possibilities . |
| 24 | MONEY should not be drawn down from members of the Gooda Walker syndicates at Lloyd 's of London ‘ in the face of breach of trust allegations and maybe fraud ’ in Syndicate 290 , said Michael Burton QC in court yesterday . |
| 25 | It does not assume any proof demonstrating its validity , and therefore it can not be knocked down for not offering it . |
| 26 | It was , presumably , drafted and engrossed by persons of reasonable educational standard , and the eccentricities ( to modern eyes ) in the orthography can not be put down to illiteracy . |
| 27 | Likes and dislikes can not be put down to pure genetic inheritance alone . |
| 28 | Because he lost sight of me quickly , he knew that I could not be going down to the river or turning left into the church : he had an uninterrupted view of both . |
| 29 | Before any fluttering expectations begin to arise in the minds or breasts — I do not mind which it is — of Opposition Members , I should say that I can not advise the House to write the two clauses into the Bill , because they deal , for example , with administrative matters such as a once-off requirement for a report to be made to Parliament — new clause 2 — and the keeping of a custody record — new clause 10 — that should not be set down in primary legislation . |
| 30 | ‘ And the mortgagee having sworn he paid and expended above £120 in defending his mortgage at law , although he had but £60 costs allowed him there … shall not be held down to the taxation at law , but shall against the account be allowed all he laid out , or expended . |