Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] [vb pp] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the word ‘ romance ’ can not be tied down to any one meaning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Likes and dislikes can not be put down to pure genetic inheritance alone . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | She might find herself not being carried down to London but spirited away to distant unknown suburbs such as Hendon and Colindale . |
| 10 | So we wo n't be tied down to schools very much longer . |
| 11 | She 's wounded , too , in one leg , but she ca n't be moved down to Florence until twenty-four hours have passed because she cracked her head when she fell and there could be concussion . ’ |