Example sentences of "be [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 2 | Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist . |
| 3 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 4 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 5 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 6 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
| 7 | By October , when the administration 's Operations Sub-Group on Terrorism met in the White House Situation Room , the target list had been whittled down to one , Fawaz Younis , whom the CIA described as ‘ a key player in the back-street world of terrorism … who reported directly to the leadership of the Shiite Amal militia ’ . |
| 8 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 10 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 11 | Goals are much easier to attain if they are broken down into small steps . |
| 12 | In order to cover this range of variation , the figures in table 3.13 are broken down into mandibular incisor digestion ( columns 13 ) , maxillary incisor digestion ( columns 4–6 ) , isolated incisor digestion ( columns 7–10 ) , and all these combined in columns 11 to 13 . |
| 13 | If large goals are broken down into small specified short-term tasks , a sense of purpose is created . |
| 14 | When these figures are broken down into age groups a strong increasing gradient with age is obvious ( table II ) . |
| 15 | Where possible , course descriptions are broken down into undergraduate , postgraduate and professional sections . |
| 16 | They are fully bio-degradable in a maximum of three days * , by which time all the active ingredients are broken down into natural harmless substances . |
| 17 | As these wastes are broken down by physical , chemical , and bacterial action , they gradually form ‘ humus ’ , a highly important binding factor in the formation of stable soil crumbs or tilth and in the transformation of minerals into soluble plant nutrients . |
| 18 | Marsh grasses , like the tall , coarse Spartina genus , are broken down by bacteria to form detritus , food for shellfish . |
| 19 | Even chemicals that are broken down by different enzymes may ‘ compete ’ : some enzymes need substances known cofactors to help them do their work , so the two chemicals are ‘ competing ’ for cofactors , rather than for the enzymes themselves . |
| 20 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 21 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 22 | As fibre-rich waste products are broken down in the large bowel , a number of products are formed apart from the release of calories . |
| 23 | The items between the top of the partition and the gap formed by the moving of the instance are shuffled down in order to remove the gap . |
| 24 | Now various versions of Unix have been boiled down to two : one from the Open Systems Foundation , a consortium that includes IBM , Hewlett Packard and DEC , and one from Unix International , a consortium involving AT&T and Sun Microsystems . |
| 25 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The six themes are at unequal stages of development in that some have already been broken down into specific research projects whereas others are at a more exploratory stage . |
| 28 | She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain . |
| 29 | Lumps of excrement and sodden pieces of toilet paper lie in the water in a state which suggests they have not been broken down at all . |
| 30 | The inflated catalogue of works ascribed to him as a result of late nineteenth-century adulation has now been stripped down to basics . |