Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities sought to break down the mystique surrounding him , and to present him as a common criminal , parading him before 300 journalists on Sept. 24 in an iron cage erected on the patio of the Lima police headquarters . |
| 2 | The real reason is that competition between the various issuers has forced down the charges levied on the retailers — once as high as 3 to 5 per cent , down to an average of 2.2 per cent in 1988 and now 1.7 per cent and falling . |
| 3 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 4 | HOUSEWIFE Sarah Fox 's dream of making a fortune from soap that FLOATS has disappeared down the plughole . |
| 5 | This , I think sums up the Kitchens rather neatly — they 're not much like corporate-trousered rock stars , but they 're hardly the Manic Street Preachers attempting to bring down the system from within either . |
| 6 | Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain . |
| 7 | Planted in horizontal rows across hillsides , the grass sinks deep roots and grows into a living retaining wall that traps soil washing down the slope . |
| 8 | The evidence for the continuance of the policy into the fifth century comes from Thessaly , where Leotychidas had put down the tagos in the 470s ( p. 81 ) . |
| 9 | His spectacles had shaken down the arch of his nose . |
| 10 | The crabs have climbed down the cliffs , for their eggs must be deposited directly into the sea if they are to hatch . |
| 11 | I made 400 before great arcing beams of light snaked out above the eastern-bounding ridges of the valley and I had to stop as blocks and slates came hurtling down the softening snow . |
| 12 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 13 | Declining profit shares and falling output-capital ratios combined to push down the rate of profit ( figures 11.6 and 11.7 ) . |
| 14 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 15 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |
| 16 | British officials sought to play down the significance of yesterday 's move . |
| 17 | State Department officials sought to play down the significance of the visit and insisted that the USA recognized only one state in Cyprus . |
| 18 | Troops trying to put down the ethnic conflict in South Ossetia ( in which Dzhava was one of the principal centres ) were transferred to relief operations . |
| 19 | Accepting the only logical course of action the robots had shut down the machine , even though it meant they too sank into inertia as a consequence . |
| 20 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 21 | The four Counsellors had skittered down the slope and were harrying him to walk more quickly . |
| 22 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 23 | But at least drugs stopping the development of full-blown AIDS have kept down the death toll in the West . |
| 24 | I tried to get a better grip but to my horror my fingers began to run down the door like melting plasticine as I watched from my perilous vantage point . |
| 25 | Egon Zehnder consultants tend to play down the headhunter image , now freely accepted by most of the Big Four's directors , and see themselves , like their European colleagues , as management consultants . |
| 26 | The new directives aim to bring down the maximum permitted level of nitrates in drinking water to 50mg per litre . |
| 27 | Levinson , in Pragmatics ( 1983 ) , spends some thirty pages trying to pin down the term " pragmatics " . |
| 28 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |
| 29 | During the day four low-flying military jets had blasted down the Glen . |
| 30 | Various constructions of people with learning difficulties have existed down the ages as society has attempted to define and make sense of patterns of behaviour which differ from the norm . |