Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down in [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition .
2 I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations .
3 It was enacted that the vill should not be required to pay the cost of service beyond the county boundary , that the equipment required of troops should not go beyond that laid down in the Statute of Winchester , and that service overseas should not be required as an obligation of tenure .
4 First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas .
5 A MURDER trial was adjourned last night after one of the accused broke down in the witness box as she said her fellow defendant had suggested using shovels to bury a woman alive .
6 However , by the autumn of 1992 , both the government and other experts were predicting that the continuing recession would lead to a still more rapid slow down in the growth of government revenue .
7 She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap .
8 Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ .
9 Because it is the most complex of all food elements , protein is the hardest to break down in the body , requiring a great deal of energy .
10 ‘ And we all converge down in the meadow where the skirmishing will take place .
11 Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 .
12 Times when we all get down in the dumps , but God can always reach deep within us and put us back on our feet again .
13 Let's all sit down in a circle and ask the magic to work . ’
14 Then they all sat down in a fashion so orderly that the files they formed were almost identical and equidistant .
15 You know , again as you said earlier on it all comes down in the end to the head !
16 To enable them to take all client groups , accommodation standards will be higher than those set down in the registration criteria .
17 In November the Smolensk guberniia executive committee is being rebuked in turn by no less a person than V. Molotov , Secretary of the Central Committee in Moscow , for allowing subordinates to impose taxes beyond those laid down in the All-Union list .
18 L 24 , p. 1 ) were adopted , all the member states applied to registration similar nationality requirements to those laid down in the Act of 1988 .
19 It is likely that , in recent years , a majority of such orders have been sought by the preserved railways under the very procedures that are to be replaced by those laid down in the Bill .
20 If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height .
21 In Cannock Forest the warden might take ten oaks from those blown down in the hays of Alrewas , Hopwas and Gailey , and in ‘ the wood called Hockley ’ .
22 The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century .
23 The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me .
24 The costs were provided in the previous year with the exception of a £1.1 million write down in the value of the Dumfries building charged in 1992/93 .
25 The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] .
26 Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock .
27 I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other .
28 On the Sunday , regulars from Manchester 's Most Excellent partied down in the Rover 's Return in an enjoyable one-off hostessed by a leopardskin-clad drag version of Bet Lynch .
29 We bore a letter of introduction from Werner Meyer to Puang Ranteallo , son of the late king — whom we at last tracked down in an astonishing arena .
30 They both sat down in the deeply cushioned cane chairs and looked out over what was left of the original coconut grove , now a building-site .
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