Example sentences of "down from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that 's , you see there 's , there 's a few comes at the , even at the present moment , there 's some come down from every year . |
| 2 | Such rifts are said , therefore , to have a half-graben structure with the main boundary listric fault forming a footwall , and the opposing downwarped crust forming a hanging wall leading down from a roll-over zone ( Fig. 4.9(B) ) . |
| 3 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 4 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 5 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 6 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 7 | I was tied into a sleeping bag and hung upside down from a tree overnight . |
| 8 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 9 | The A.832 now heads south up a wooded ravine , rising pleasantly to open country , the latter section of the climb being defaced by a huge water pipe coming down from a reservoir above : a black mark for the planners and water authorities . |
| 10 | A shot which misses the green left still gives your the chance of a chip and putt for par , rather than the extra pressure of having to get up and down from a bunker . |
| 11 | Hermes at the left end holds the winged horses of Athena 's chariot which she is mounting ; on the central slab another goddess , almost certainly Aphrodite , steps down from a chariot which faces the other way . |
| 12 | A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river . |
| 13 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 14 | Ore was also carted down from a hopper at Top Level , the track crossing the beck directly below the waterfall then winding around to connect with the Levers Water — Paddy End track . |
| 15 | Chips & Technologies Inc saw a third quarter net loss of $4.1m , down from a $10.3m loss last time , on turnover down 30.9% at $21.6m ; net loss for the nine months was $39.7m , down from a loss last time of $48.5m , on turnover that fell 29.3% at $76.3m . |
| 16 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 17 | The new benchmark ten-year government bond yielded 6.3% on February 20th , down from a peak of 7.9% ( on a compound yield basis ) at the end of September . |
| 18 | Indeed , the average current-account balance ( ignoring whether the balance is a surplus or deficit ) of the big seven industrial economies is forecast to fall to only 0.6% of their collective GNP this year , down from a peak of 3.0% in 1986 . |
| 19 | At 2.94m , 10.5% of the labour force , it is down from a peak of 2.99m in January . |
| 20 | A further 1,400 jobs were cut last year , bringing the total headcount down to 7,100 , down from a peak of 17,700 in 1984 . |
| 21 | Its nineteenth-century decline in mortality went straight down from a peak in the 1860s to oblivion in the mid-1950s , although notifications remain high to the present day . |
| 22 | Key points of the accord included ( i ) a set-aside , in the first year , of 15 per cent of the EC farmland currently devoted to growing oilseeds , and a set-aside of at least 10 per cent in future years [ see also p. 39170 ] , in return for the lifting of punitive US tariffs on EC food and drink imports [ see below ] ; ( ii ) restriction of oilseed production to 5.128 million hectares [ not 5,128 million hectares as given on p. 39170 ] , thereby cutting EC production in future years to between 8,500,000 and 9,700,000 tonnes , down from a peak of 13,000,000 tonnes in 1991 [ ibid. ] , in return for curbs on US exports of soya beans and other cereal substitutes to the EC ( so-called rebalancing " ibid. ) ; and ( iii ) trimming the volume of subsidised EC farm exports by 21 per cent ( rather than 24 per cent as proposed in a GATT draft accord " see p. 38746 ) , cutting EC internal price supports by 20 per cent and reducing EC export subsidies by 36 per cent . |
| 23 | One of the most important concerns the ending , which was to have been based on an Old Believer melody Mussorgsky had taken down from a friend . |
| 24 | According to government claims , over 250 LTTE rebels were killed between Aug. 22 and Aug. 26 , including over 100 shot down from a helicopter as they cycled to reinforce LTTE positions near Kopay . |
| 25 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |
| 26 | A TEENAGER yesterday claimed he was beaten with a horsewhip sometimes while dangling upside down from a rope by his foster father . |
| 27 | A TEENAGER yesterday claimed he was beaten with a horsewhip sometimes while dangling upside down from a rope by his foster father . |
| 28 | She hated unpleasantness , though she would n't back down from a fight . |
| 29 | Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the C.-in-C. of the Army and former military dictator , ordered the Army to step down from a state of full alert on Sept. 24 in response to a telephone call from President Patricio Aylwin Azócar . |
| 30 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |