Example sentences of "[noun sg] down to size " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Wife of Bath and the Prioress together challenge the social norms of women 's roles ; the shifting surfaces of the Pardoner 's blatant hypocrisy tease the reader into an uncomfortable awareness of the unfathomable nature of human motivation for the onlooker ; the Nun 's priest 's juxtaposition of intellectual solemnity with quick-witted pragmatism and his stress on the saving grace of social charity cuts self-importance down to size . |
| 2 | The dispute took place after the English victory at Agincourt and at a time of growing alliance between Henry V and the Emperor Sigismund against the French , and there is little doubt that the principal French spokesman on the subject , Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly , was largely concerned with cutting the enemy down to size . |
| 3 | It is much more his business to stir up curiosity than to insist on acceptances. , Pound as critic cuts the critic down to size ; which is , one may think , a pressing need , now , in 1984 . |
| 4 | He used to say that he wanted to give prose the strength and stature of poetry ; but part of this project seemed to include first cutting poetry down to size . |
| 5 | CAT DOWN TO SIZE |
| 6 | Was his success down to size or technique … |
| 7 | It 's a lot neater and we 've cut the door down to size so that |
| 8 | History thus cuts man down to size by reminding him of his origins : its characteristic insight is hindsight . |
| 9 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
| 10 | Lithuania defiantly votes to cut the party down to size . |