Example sentences of "[coord] 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 Keep left along the wall and down to a gully with Caperby below .
27 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 .
28 Homeless and down to a fiver .
29 In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder .
30 Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket .
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