Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system ought to be to attempt to guess , or find out by other means , the numbers that other people are less likely to put down . |
| 2 | Potassium permanganate has the disadvantage of producing solid manganese dioxide during the process of oxidation which can cause blockages and importantly where any of the chlorinated oxidising agents are used care needs to be taken when phenolic contaminants are present as there have been instances of chlorophenols being formed which in turn produce most obnoxious odours sometimes toxic which are extremely difficult to break down . |
| 3 | We 're on the dear old elevated section of the M4 where lorries are so apt to break down when there 's a call for McDunn ; he takes the handset , listens and sucks his teeth for a bit , then says , ‘ Thank you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And John … preached , saying , There cometh one mightier than I after me , the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose ’ ( Mark 1:7 ) . |
| 5 | Sadly , as in India , when we are already one match down ! |
| 6 | Mr Chalmers said in Glasgow : ‘ The only political parties who are not prepared to sit down and talk about the recall of a Scottish parliament are the Tory party and the Labour Party . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's why you 're quite right to come down here to start your travels . |
| 8 | ‘ Alarm bells are not ringing but I hope nobody thinks we 're too good to go down . |
| 9 | Quantitative arguments of that kind are always hard to pin down solidly , but I do n't think it 's numerically plausible that you could produce a set of changes of that kind by species selection . |
| 10 | Early marriages have always been more likely to break down . |
| 11 | Because if they do n't , if they do n't become any more aware of what 's going on for them , they will take all that unfinished business into a new relationship and statistically , we know that second or third time marriages are more likely to break down than first time marriages . |
| 12 | High interest rates are clearly necessary to clamp down demand and bring the money supply under control . |
| 13 | Social workers and their managers are clearly ready to knuckle down to the task of making the policy work for users . |
| 14 | Road names are a prolific form of aviation memorial but are often difficult to track down . |
| 15 | My target was 13 , so we are now 2 points down . |
| 16 | Women are now eligible to work down the pits under previous legislation , but there is protection for kids , for the 16-year-olds who come into the industry . |
| 17 | Pig 64 , on the other hand , are as difficult to pin down as a greased pig on rollerskates . |
| 18 | I mean I 'm obviously happy to sit down and talk through any of it beforehand anyway with you . |
| 19 | The list is longer , but what I am getting at is that it is going to be extremely expensive to cut down this pollution . |
| 20 | I , I 'm always reluctant to put down specific methods of writing new procedures , or who 's responsible for it , or where it 's got to be done because it depends entirely on what it 's about . |
| 21 | I 'm always willing to stand down if somebody can claim to be a little older . |
| 22 | But , again , it will not be as easy to lay down rules for writing it , since it is basically a version of the blueprint detective story but with all its rules loosened . |
| 23 | A Board spokesman admitted it would be virtually impossible to track down all the Iraqi 's sexual partners . |
| 24 | Sometimes , such defences can be almost impossible to break down on a person-to-person level . |
| 25 | It can be quite illuminating to write down a few vague goals , and then to discover just how deepseated your real feelings about nursing can be . |
| 26 | so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base |
| 27 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 28 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 29 | ‘ They 're going to be very difficult to break down , ’ he said . |
| 30 | It should n't be too difficult to track down . |