Example sentences of "[conj] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | it creates extra communication problems , since top management is more remote from the work done at the bottom end of the organisation , and information tends to get distorted or blocked on its way up or down through the organisation hierarchy ; |
2 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
3 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
4 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
5 | She did not look back at Ursula or down into the valley , but trained her eyes forward , fixing them on the interior of the Mercedes and the dark shape of its occupant as , with every step , clarity threatened to break upon her vision . |
6 | In prisons , in the trenches , in the factory canteen or down at the dole office , it helps to cushion the harshness of life . |
7 | Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’ |
8 | In windy weather , the effects of the wind gradient near the ground accentuate any movement up or down of the towplane and glider . |
9 | Rather , the carrier frequency swoops up or down about an octave . |
10 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
11 | At twenty she 'd rather go riding or fishing with him than up to Dublin or down to a dance . |
12 | She went up on the hills or down to the beach . |
13 | The feeling is that no amount of legislative safeguards can entirely eliminate the risk of a chemical spill , wreaking havoc in this watery landscape where a network of mountain streams fed by high rainfall could quickly wash the damage into the drinking water , or down to the mussel farm and salmon fishery at the mouth of Killary harbour . |
14 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
15 | In between they were too busy enjoying themselves on the beach at Barmouth , or down by the lake or clambering up Snowdon . |
16 | He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children . |
17 | Coming from the lake , or down from the north , all the goods had to be unloaded because of the impassable barrier of the Rhine Falls , then taken to the waiting vessels on the other side . |
18 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
19 | How many times have you seen a horse with his head tied in with draw reins at a show and as soon as the gadget is removed his head shoots up or down in an effort to stretch the neck . |
20 | I have probably missed a few esoteric cuisines and no doubt some of the possibilities you 'll see chalked up on the blackboard or down in the menus , but you 've got the general idea by now . |
21 | ‘ We pick them up , ’ the Skull was saying , ‘ they 're guys with no links , like on the pier or down in the meat streets , they 're always suckers for a few lines and a limousine . |
22 | Everyone else is out , or down in the kitchen ; the children are in bed . |
23 | I 'm either up in the clouds or down in the dumps — you ought to know that by now . |
24 | You 've got until nine o'clock tomorrow morning to have route round the attic or down in the cellar to see if you 've got a small fortune waiting to be discovered . |
25 | She said , ‘ She 's out on the hills , or down in the fields . ’ |
26 | This presentation would have benefited from being delivered out to the audience , rather than down to the lectern , and he should practise opening his mouth wider when talking — he was sometimes difficult to follow . |
27 | You know rather than down to the line planning for every single moment of the day . |
28 | They burnt Brighton in 1544 , forcing the settlement to grow finally upon the cliffs rather than down on the beach , threatened by the French and ‘ Neptune 's insatiate womb ’ . |
29 | Keep left along the wall and down to a gully with Caperby below . |
30 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |