Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the mention of Whillans ’ middle-aged spread , Steve smiles and observes that while he and Greg Child began the climbing thin and disappeared , Whillans trimmed down to normal weight . |
| 32 | Then at the crucial point which only his body can decide , either he 'll drop ’ — she slapped the table — ‘ down to normal inside of a few hours , or his temp . |
| 33 | The importance of stopping smoking needs to be very strongly emphasised , as well as the advisability of sticking to a low animal fat diet for the future , of getting the weight down to normal and of taking those measures necessary to reduce blood pressure to an ideal level , i.e. reducing salt and alcohol intake , keeping the weight normal , taking regular exercise and avoiding anger . |
| 34 | ‘ You might be a whizz at your job , you might have the charisma of ten men , but when it comes down to normal decent human values you 're nothing . |
| 35 | And then it is down to serious show business with the climax on Saturday afternoon when the Expo champion is announced . |
| 36 | Then the crew got down to serious drinking . |
| 37 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 38 | Westminster Evening Institute also settled down to serious work . |
| 39 | Rather , supporters tend to wait until the seemingly inevitable lapse of concentration in defence before expecting the side to get down to serious business . |
| 40 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 41 | Tomorrow she really must settle down to serious work on her novel ; time was slipping past , her deadline was approaching and if she did n't get on with it she 'd have Joe making agitated phone calls and coming down to visit . |
| 42 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 43 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 44 | Fianna Fail 's formula is that once the Unionists get down to serious discussions they will be addressed . |
| 45 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 46 | However , it is a good discipline to bring your negotiations down to concise statements so that both have the same expectations . |
| 47 | If the hon. Gentleman looks at what has happened in Europe in the past decade — in France , Belgium , Denmark , Sweden and Italy — he will see that all those countries have devolved their powers down to regional authorities . |
| 48 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 49 | The balance of payments , much helped by oil of course , was comfortably in surplus down to 1986 . |
| 50 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 51 | What you are aiming for is something like Fig. 9.3 where the pitch is reduced to around zero when the model is on its side , goes down to negative when inverted , back to zero when the helicopter is on its other side and finally back to normal . |
| 52 | She was down to 99 in two hours . |
| 53 | Work on the two drainage ditches to keep water off the deck has now been completed and we have now done some work to provide steps down to trackbed level . |
| 54 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 55 | ‘ She came down to Aberconwy School where we all were and said she wanted all the mothers and babies to stay with her , ’ said Tracey Parker . |
| 56 | It had promoted social provision , income maintenance , and ( down to 1973 ) full employment , in contrast to the social misery after 1919 . |
| 57 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 58 | The workforce will be reduced by 84 , bringing total numbers employed down to 512 . |
| 59 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 60 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |