Example sentences of "be [vb pp] down [prep] " 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 | It seems that each of these can be broken down into five identifiable stages . |
| 4 | These can be broken down into organisation of money , time and preparation . |
| 5 | The build itself can be broken down into two groups , ‘ Direct Build Costs ’ and ‘ Other Costs . ’ |
| 6 | The total task needs to be broken down into small easily achieved wins , eg every teacher will be in the playground five minutes before the bell goes to greet children and parents , four children from each class will have their names entered in the ‘ Gold book ’ for good work or praiseworthy actions , any child in hospital for more than one night will receive ‘ get well cards ’ from the class and a visit by a member of staff , the entrance hall is cleared of clutter and made more welcoming for visitors . |
| 7 | Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years . |
| 8 | Ideally the calculations for increased prices should be broken down into different categories of material and related to the number of volumes purchased by the library in each of these categories . |
| 9 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 10 | Sources of error in the digitizing process can be broken down into two main streams : source map error and operational error . |
| 11 | The basic principle of the UGIX design is that in order to make a GIS easy to use the process of making a database enquiry , plotting a map or carrying out spatial analysis must be broken down into manageable parts , linked by a pathway for the user to follow . |
| 12 | Each priority will have to be broken down into manageable tasks and the methods for carrying them out and reviewing them identified . |
| 13 | It only requires behaviour to be broken down into some specifics , the equivalent of building blocks , and for those specifics to be cast into a coherent plan of action . |
| 14 | Since the relevant words are ‘ I know , Pamphilus , that everything I leave you will pass to my sons … ’ , the question can be broken down into two parts : do these words amount to a trust at all ? |
| 15 | An important part of the treatment of candidiasis is to avoid sugary foods , and other refined carbohydrates ( white flour , white bread etc ) which can quickly be broken down into sugar once they reach the gut . |
| 16 | Within the agreed timetable the task must be broken down into elements or stages which are themselves ‘ milestones ’ . |
| 17 | It follows that such noisy groups of youngsters whether in canoes , on cycles or on foot , need to be broken down into smaller groups each controlled by a responsible competent leader or instructor until such time as they become mature canoeists and are able to appreciate the magic and wonder of their surroundings . |
| 18 | The broad Shetlander identity can also be broken down into various sorts of identities . |
| 19 | To be useful , crime rates must be broken down into specific categories of offences . |
| 20 | These may be formulated in more or less specific terms and the rather general issues that I have already outlined may be broken down into more narrowly focused questions and be dealt with in more than one module with provision made for explicit cross-reference . |
| 21 | Any sentence can be broken down into immediate sub-units which themselves have reasonably independent status as coherent wholes , whose combination produces the original sentence . |
| 22 | That a subject is capable of noticing whatever is to be perceived can be broken down into two individually necessary and jointly sufficiently conditions : |
| 23 | Therapy may be broken down into five basic stages or aspects . |
| 24 | The overall goal of ‘ increasing social contacts ’ , just like ‘ having more money ’ , can be broken down into specific objectives and activities . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A multilateral treaty relationship may be broken down into a series of bilateral relationships . |
| 27 | This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Any process with a clearly defined end and intermediate objectives that can be broken down into easily analysed subskills is ideally suited for computerisation . |