Example sentences of "[adv] down to earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skinhead tastes are ‘ right down to earth ’ . |
| 2 | Then a few drops of water fell on the side and fell right down to earth . |
| 3 | Aware that the dress had a fey , other-worldish air that was light-years away from her own rather down to earth personality , Laura gave a nervous shrug of her shoulders . |
| 4 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 5 | There are some strange flights of fancy and there are also some extremely down to earth not to say earthy observations . |
| 6 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 7 | The incredible power was channelled harmlessly down to earth . |
| 8 | The journey through Louisiana was more down to earth . |
| 9 | Wilde took poetic licence to the extreme , for the true story is much more down to earth . |
| 10 | The reality could not be more down to earth and straightforward , though there is much more to this player than meets the eye . |
| 11 | The third source is more down to earth . |
| 12 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 13 | When the smoke clears Pain Teens turn out to be more down to earth , a punky bar band who occasionally stray into territory that can best be described as extra terrestrial . |
| 14 | The Kitchenware Records spokesperson , brought up on Newcastle Brown , was more down to earth . |
| 15 | ‘ more down to earth , more devoted to our purposes than those of the author , less concerned with artistic values than with a faithful rendering of the subject 's experience and interpretation of the world he lives in . |
| 16 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 17 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 18 | Unfortunately your head has a more down to earth message that stops you mid-melody . |
| 19 | More down to earth are essays on predicting the economy by Frank Hahn and the frontiers of medicine by Ian Kennedy . |
| 20 | Here is a more down to earth example than the ones suggested above : the drama is set in contemporary Britain , in a small rural area by the coast . |
| 21 | But after a lifetime working for God , a vicar 's cv does n't offer much to more down to earth employers . |
| 22 | Certainly there is much of interest here as the exhibition runs the whole gamut with further wide-ranging , bird 's eye views through more down to earth transcriptions to a couple of urban scenes . |
| 23 | AMIDST THE wild-ish scenes , L7 are delightfully down to earth . |
| 24 | They are still down to earth but holy as well . |
| 25 | He was always down to earth and had very little imagination . |
| 26 | But she insisted that Elizabeth Bowen was also down to earth : |
| 27 | He was often down to earth in that way . |
| 28 | And when you get back down to earth , concessionary discounts can ease your domestic burdens . |
| 29 | Come to that , I suppose , most of the other sprinters were hoping that the timing was wrong and were eager to bring me back down to earth . |
| 30 | The next evening , the Thursday , I was brought back down to earth with a bump . |