Example sentences of "comes [adv] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Essentially it comes down to the age-old question which has tormented the rich as much as the fate of their souls : how do you have your cake and eat it ? |
2 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
3 | That comes down to the same problem , that actually |
4 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
5 | Comes down to the same thing in the end . |
6 | Again , it all comes down to the vocal thing . |
7 | Cruelty in general comes easily to the childish nature , since the obstacle that brings the instinct for mastery to a halt at another person 's pain — namely a capacity for pity — is developed relatively late . |
8 | erm What happens if erm your boss is n't on the phone and their boss has transferred all their calls to the other phone , the other phone rings as well as the secretaries ring , so you pick it up on your phone , which is R star star 3 , and then you want to get it through to the boss , but when you ring the number it comes through to the other phone . |
9 | Consequently , in the transition epoch , the case of the imaginary form inevitably comes close to the typical case . |
10 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
11 | But in relative terms there can be no doubt that British broadcasting comes close to the Public Service Ideal while the British press comes nowhere near it . |
12 | Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both . |
13 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
14 | Until it comes up to the next page . |
15 | It does n't matter , it comes out to the same thing . |
16 | So all church members are being asked to think about the issue and make up their minds before it comes back to the General Synod for the final vote . |
17 | Then right at the end of the interview , he comes back to the fundamental question about himself — what is on offer . |
18 | Once again one comes back to the fundamental question of how much use all this is and whether the NSA really provides good value for money . |
19 | In a statement made in 1952 , Aneurin Bevan comes closest to the continental view . |