Example sentences of "this [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 2 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 3 | I 've got erm , how many hours and all this written down at home if you want me to bring that up |
| 4 | We 're going to , we 've , we 've got this going down to for three weeks , you know next weekend or the weekend afterwards , and we do n't keep getting appointments , see I 'm gon na keep ringing him up and pestering him and saying |
| 5 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 6 | Arguably this cuts down on women 's contact with other people . |
| 7 | This cuts down on the suspense and Ballantyne sees it as being comic . |
| 8 | until this grows down past that bit . |
| 9 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 10 | This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes . |
| 11 | However , even this breaks down in some cases — for instance , in the form of hypercholesterolaemia due to a low density lipoprotein receptor defect , the pathology is quantitative , and introducing a normal gene may improve the prognosis , even in adults in whom the disease is dominant . |
| 12 | It is possible , by examination and experiment , to work out the process of manufacture in many cases , and as much of the technology used in the past is still in use today , this boils down to testing hypotheses ( rather than guesswork ) . |
| 13 | What this boils down to , briefly , is this : that one can not treat " Shakespeare " as a " rigid designator " without at the same time assuming that some essence " attaches to it , and hence that certain descriptions necessarily go with it , although no such description , or set of descriptions , can fully reproduce its " meaning " . |
| 14 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 15 | This burnt down in 1791 but had a dramatic effect on milling in London and clearly had an influence on the Gloucester Docks scheme . |
| 16 | Croatia and the JNA late on Aug. 27 agreed to a new ceasefire after talks in Brioni between Tudjman , Defence Minister Kadijevic and Chief of Staff Gen. Adzic but this broke down within hours as fighting resumed in Vukovar . |
| 17 | Put your arm up a little bit till I can get this pulled down over your feet . |
| 18 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 19 | This boiling down of groups into their respective ethnic essences is clearly congruent with the nationalist concerns of the right , but it is also sanctioned by the antiracist orthodoxy of the left and by many voices from within the black communities themselves which have needed no prompting to develop their own fascination with ethnic differences and thus reduce political definitions of ‘ race ’ to a narcissistic celebration of culture and Identity . |
| 20 | This clamps down in three ways . |
| 21 | No , it 's er , no this tingling down to your fingers , that 's a different thing Catherine . |
| 22 | This type of information used to be held on an IBM mainframe computer , but this closed down for financial reasons . |
| 23 | because it 's got a desk , it 's desk and er , we keep it , er this comes down as a desk , you can write on there |
| 24 | But this comes down to saying no more than that the dog eats the meat not the eggplant . |
| 25 | but I think this , this comes down to the |
| 26 | All of this comes down to one simple phrase : working more efficiently so we can do more and do it better . |