Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 2 | I 've got erm , how many hours and all this written down at home if you want me to bring that up |
| 3 | This burnt down in 1791 but had a dramatic effect on milling in London and clearly had an influence on the Gloucester Docks scheme . |
| 4 | They have n't half gone down in price |
| 5 | Well I 've got that written down as the beginning of what goes in but e , I do n't actually do those the departments do them . |
| 6 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |
| 7 | Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down |
| 8 | Wait till I 've cut it and we 're all sat down with a piece , and I 'll tell you a story . |
| 9 | Yes but it 's all based down on cutting more . |
| 10 | it 's all set down in my statement . |
| 11 | All right then and I hope it 's all calmed down by then as well . |
| 12 | Shamlou was gratified to find themselves jostled by so many foreign students , many loaded down with rucksacks , clearly in Paris for cheap hostel holidays . |
| 13 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |
| 14 | Some second-tier agencies have adopted a kind of ratings machismo that promises investors harsher verdicts than those handed down by Moody 's and S&P . |
| 15 | Respectable England did not have the stomach for such a drastic curtailment of civil liberties , however , and although fearful of how to absorb the most noxious criminal elements back into society without the option of packing them off to the colonies , the deliberations of the mid-1850s bogged down in suggestions for more effective surveillance of ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ men , together with some wishful thinking about reviving transportation in some form or another . |
| 16 | His succession to the English crown in 1154 at the age of 21 was hailed with relief by those worn down by insurrection and counter-bargaining . |
| 17 | Deposits laid down during the rifting phase are termed synrift sediments while those laid down on the margin once continental separation has occurred are termed postrift sediments . |
| 18 | The restrictions which bound individual Japanese to conformity were less those laid down by law than the more pervasive ones of social ethic and social convention which discouraged a ‘ selfish ’ individualist approach . |
| 19 | Nor can an incomplete job description fulfil such requirements of good planning as those laid down by the two post-1988 Act teams on management ( DES 1989e , 1990a ) . |
| 20 | Says Jim Whiston , ‘ This time next year we 'll have double the number of accreditations and by 1990 the vast majority of businesses in C&P , ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials will have attained BS standards or those laid down by manufacturers . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The fermentation of organic matter by gut micro-orgamisms is mediated by a number of interdependent reactions in which complex polymers are first broken down to their constituent monomers by hydrolytic enzymes synthesised by the bacteria . |
| 26 | These were first written down in draft form , then refined on input to the database . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Each cell wall is first laid down as a thick ridge . |
| 29 | Pricing criteria were first laid down in detail in the 1967 ( second ) White Paper — prices should be related to ( long-run ) marginal costs , without arbitrary cross-subsidization , but should be sufficient to cover full accounting costs including the opportunity cost of capital . |
| 30 | This principle , first laid down in Davies v. Sumner , a trade descriptions case ( see paragraph 16–07 , below ) , applies also under the Unfair Contract Terms Act , R. & B. Customs Brokers Co . |