Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 2 | Early in 1943 Leslie had written to me from North Africa : ‘ I had the unusual experience of seeing a Messerschmitt 110 shot down by A.A. fire not 100 feet above my head . |
| 3 | However , formal discussions begun in May 1991 broke down in June when the NSF refused to concede the main opposition demand for Roman to be replaced by a " neutral " Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Du n no how Maggie first sat down with him . |
| 5 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
| 6 | ( One widely held theory was that Iran had paid Jabril US$1,000,000 to blow up PA 103 in retaliation for the July 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes [ see pp. 36169-70 ] ] ) . |
| 7 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 10 | He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him . |
| 11 | Seven days later a Sea King mark 4 went down at 49o 43 'S , 5 1o 43'W . |
| 12 | On the 12 May , a Sea King mark 5 went down at 50o 53 'S , 54o 40'W . |
| 13 | What the detail in Appendix I boils down to is that , in general , seeing how total costs or APRs compare does not make most people change their minds . |
| 14 | I think that nice Captain Meek went down with his ship later on in the war . |
| 15 | Following a dramatic rise in the US dollar exchange rate on the black market , from 6,000 intis at the end of October to 11,200 on Nov. 21 ( and to 14,000 intis by May 1990 ) , transit through the Tacna border with Chile and border points with Ecuador and Bolivia was restricted for 15 days as from Nov. 21 to crack down on smuggling and illegal trading in US dollars , particularly in the Chilean free zone of Iquique . |
| 16 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 17 | The King , the Queen and their lords and ladies all came down to the beach to wave goodbye . |
| 18 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 19 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 20 | ( The Number one left hard light must be on Silver or Knitmaster electronics and the Number 6 switch down on Brother electronics ) . |
| 21 | The opening episode of ‘ The Daleks ’ , ‘ The Dead Planet ’ premiers the use of Inlay in Doctor Who for one of the most historic shots in the programme 's history — the awesome moment when the Doctor , Ian , Barbara and Susan first look down at the glittering towers of the Dalek city , gleaming , some miles distant , in the rays of the setting sun . |
| 22 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |
| 23 | And if national sentiment in the other , France , was initially a response to the threat from England , just as it was in Scotland , there was no doubt of France 's position by the end of the fifteenth century ; the dazzling army and glittering artillery train which Charles VIII led down through the length of Italy in 1494 — for no good reason other than that a young king , with a well-stuffed treasury , would naturally use his wealth to win military renown — symbolized in the most spectacular manner what this kingdom , so recently weakened by war and internal dissension , had now become . |
| 24 | But it 's a fair distance to walk there and it is , I suppose , a lot handier to pop down to the reservoir . |
| 25 | With its operations obliged to shut down on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays , the carrier losses more than 60 flying days a year . |
| 26 | For a second she blacked out , not from pain but from the shock of it all , and when she opened her eyes she was looking into a sea of faces all staring down at her . |
| 27 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 28 | Johannesburg : Interest was minimal and the market closed weaker , with the general index 19 points down at 2,710 . |
| 29 | With only eight months to go before the closure of Staveley sheds , a local class 04 trundles down from Arkwright on a rake of coal empties from Kirkby Bentinck No. 63701 will deposit the train at Staveley , some two miles down the track , and beyond Duckmanton North Junction ( below ) seen in the distance . |
| 30 | London share prices closed slightly lower , recouping early losses which sent the FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares 31.7 points down on fears of recession . |