Example sentences of "be [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 2 | The privacy and identity that they possessed by living in family homes separated from other families , even when members of co-operatives , would be broken down under the new arrangements . |
| 3 | Words themselves can be broken down into the minimal grammatical units known as MORPHEMES ( stems and affixes ) . |
| 4 | LIFESPAN RDBI data transfers can be broken down into the following phases : |
| 5 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 6 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 7 | These have to be broken down by the digestive system before they are absorbed as single units of mainly glucose and fructose . |
| 8 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 9 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 10 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 11 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 12 | Two days later Horst Teltschik ( CDU ) announced that he would be stepping down at the end of the year as Kohl 's foreign policy adviser at the Chancellery . |
| 13 | ‘ As the industry matures , I believe airlines will be stripped down to the core business of flying people and cargo from place to place . |
| 14 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 15 | You should feel your centre of gravity to be located down through the hips . |
| 16 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |
| 17 | Both these cars were fitted with Spencer track brakes , which could be wound down onto the rails when descending the hill . |
| 18 | Vincent asked to be wound down to the pit bottom . |
| 19 | In improvising , a player can often create spontaneously something much superior to what can be written down with the crude approximation of notation . |
| 20 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 21 | The war was over , I had a steady boyfriend who was n't likely to be shot down over the Ruhr , and I was working with a bunch of very congenial people . |
| 22 | The problem of poor image quality can be tracked down to the scanning stage . |
| 23 | Under the bill , many cases now dealt with by the High Court will be moved down to the county courts , currently plagued by staff shortages and a backlog of work . |
| 24 | If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one . |
| 25 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 26 | Winter cereals are slow to establish , and must be sown earlier : this is apparently because there is a tendency for stubble or killed turf to be pushed down into the slits with the seed where it can create anaerobic conditions leading to the formation of toxic substances such as acetic acid . |
| 27 | An auger works in much the same way , but instead of being pushed into the soil , it has a corkscrew end which can be twisted down into the earth . |
| 28 | Two : concentrated distilled gin may be watered down to the correct strength . |
| 29 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |
| 30 | To be heading down towards the Equator , towards tiny islands in the sun where pirates and privateers must have taken refuge to lie in wait for those gold-laden Spanish galleons , where a rich mixture of French , Dutch , Spanish and English had left an intriguing treasure-chest of cultures to be explored … |