Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 2 | He was claiming that next year his chairmanship would last a day longer than set down in the rules . |
| 3 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 4 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 5 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 6 | Father Pedro de Valderrama , the Trinidad 's padre , stood on the poop deck and called down on the crew of all three remaining vessels the blessing of Our Lady of Victory . |
| 7 | Spooning the garlic and ginger paste into the snapper and over their skin , he dropped the first three fish on to the grill and called down to the other Latinos to bring plates and cutlery from the galley . |
| 8 | We ca n't afford to get cut off and pinned down in the hold . ’ |
| 9 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |
| 10 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 11 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 12 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 13 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 14 | He was assigned to what was vaguely described as ‘ guard duty , ’ warned not to talk about his work and taken down to the basement to start . |
| 15 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 16 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 17 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 18 | I splashed water over my face , slicked unruly grey hair into a more reasonable disorder , and headed down to the lobby again . |
| 19 | The publisher who suffers an adverse judgment is not the only victim : the decision echoes down the corridors of the common law , until shouted down by the European Court or the British Parliament . |
| 20 | — a fear then forgotten but driven down into the subconscious ? |
| 21 | Bracing one hand on the stair-rail , he began to squeeze shot after shot down into the stairwell . |
| 22 | Whether struck down by the Lord 's retribution or by his failure in Italy or by the neglect of his sponsor the Emperor , the ninth Pope Leo , Bruno de Nordgau , died in April in the city of Rome , far from his beloved Toul and the Vosges of his family . |
| 23 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 24 | Even the Metallica frontman 's copious saliva emissions seem precision-directed and as rehearsed down to the n th degree as much of this marathon three-hour performance as obviously is . |
| 25 | In addition , he confirmed that the previously scheduled municipal and regional elections would go ahead on Nov. 8 , that elections for a new Congress would be held on Feb. 23 , 1993 , and that he would not remain in office beyond his term of 1995 , as set down in the 1979 Constitution . |
| 26 | It contained relics , and when melted down in the twelfth century yielded 500 marks of silver and thirty of gold . |
| 27 | In fact , this decision was less revolutionary than it appeared : Bush has brought the deadline forward from 2000 , as laid down under the Montreal Protocol , to 1995 , but the EC had already decided to adopt a 1997 deadline and the US had been lagging behind world opinion . |
| 28 | In the case of breed classes , every entrant is judged not against the other dogs in that class , but rather against the prescribed ‘ ideal ’ for the breed concerned , as laid down by the governing canine authority . |
| 29 | He was confident that search consultants stuck to their rules of good conduct and professional service without the need for the kind of official regulation in force in the USA , as laid down by the Association of Executive Search Consultants , ( formerly the Association of Executive Recruitment Consultants ) . |
| 30 | The Poor Law was the most comprehensive official source for the relief of poverty , administered in England and Wales as laid down by the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and a succession of later amendments , in Scotland and Ireland according to different statutes and rather different principles . |