Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 33 | Fianna Fail 's formula is that once the Unionists get down to serious discussions they will be addressed . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | However , it is a good discipline to bring your negotiations down to concise statements so that both have the same expectations . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | ‘ 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 . |
| 41 | It all came down to bloody money . |
| 42 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 43 | I AM sure that , in the end , success comes down to boring , old-fashioned things like hard work and determination . |
| 44 | With their squads already chosen , the North , Midlands and West get down to concentrated coaching . |
| 45 | With their squads already chosen , the North , Midlands and West get down to concentrated coaching . |
| 46 | ‘ Places like Ayr , Largs and Helensburgh which currently have trains until late at night and weekends would be cut down to peak-hour commuter services because they are the only ones that make money . |
| 47 | However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer . |
| 48 | We cleared the trees and stopped on the brow of a small hill which fell down to snow-covered fields , broken here and there by small copses and woods . |
| 49 | Ideally it should be laid in a fine carpet and not in higgledy-piggledy lumps that bream can break down to easy mouthfuls . |
| 50 | ‘ It 's down to individual players , ’ he said . |
| 51 | In some cases , however , the fine structure , even down to individual cells , is splendidly preserved , and these are the most important specimens from a scientific point of view . |
| 52 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 53 | The intention here is that they should operate down to individual budget holders . |
| 54 | The exceedence and measured parameters are then passed to an expert system which tries to diagnose faults down to individual components . |
| 55 | It 's normally down to individual circumstances . |
| 56 | Taking that level of security down to individual data items , what what areas of my chartered account can I update what areas can I look at ? |
| 57 | Its the same as making a formula one car go at 200 miles an hour for each and every driver … handling is down to individual skill |
| 58 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 59 | If the purpose of these ivory carvings remains a matter for discussion , it is evident that Upper Palaeolithic man began the custom of using ivory as a medium for animal and human sculpture which has lasted down to modern times . |
| 60 | Where they survived as currency down to modern times , as they did in west Africa and locally in south-east Asia , it was only as small change . |