Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious .
2 Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before .
3 Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner .
4 He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six .
5 Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point .
6 Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter-
7 ‘ No , I think it would have been easier just to take his word for it that I 'd boobed , fallen down on the job .
8 People are always being Healed down at the church .
9 Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster .
10 When the earth had been finally pressed down round the tree roots , Peter Dawson had put his arm round his wife 's tiny waist and they had surveyed their handiwork with obvious satisfaction .
11 The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring .
12 The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor .
13 Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil .
14 Of the longer term organizational trends that have developed within the travel industry , diversification needs to be broken down into a range of separate forms .
15 A multilateral treaty relationship may be broken down into a series of bilateral relationships .
16 Kummar has tried to show how engineers in private industry have had their work increasingly fragmented and broken down into a series of simple individual steps .
17 The first group firmly believes that any document can be broken down into a series of discrete specifications which can then be used to automate the production process be embedding encapsulated versions , often called tags , within the source material .
18 Just as a graph can be plotted by defining the co-ordinates through which the line must pass so any shape can be broken down into a series of co-ordinates .
19 The project is broken down into a series of well-defined jobs of short duration whose cost and time can be estimated .
20 The project is broken down into a series of well-defined jobs of short duration whose cost and time can be estimated .
21 The visit may need to be broken down into a series of short and varied experiences .
22 Hierarchy presupposes an already determined outcome or purpose ; the underlying idea of hierarchy is that such an outcome can be broken down into a set of sub-processes .
23 And since complicated situations or statements can very easily be broken down into a set of simple statements , this in effect means that computers can store complex pieces of information too .
24 What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified .
25 Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years .
26 However , in all cases the instructions can be broken down into a sequence of primitive operations on the various parts of the processor , such as the accumulators , the adder and the program counter ; notice that some of these parts are not directly accessible to the programmer .
27 For example , the fetching and execution of a " store accumulator " instruction can be broken down into a sequence of more primitive operations as shown in Figure 3.19 .
28 But since more complicated instructions can always be broken down into a collection of simple steps , this does n't matter either .
29 In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension .
30 This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones .
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