Example sentences of "down to this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it all come down to this ? |
| 2 | It comes down to this : a rejection of the single most important human fact between Newton and the Atomic Bomb — the sudden multiple increase of the earth 's population , the coming into existence of the MASSES . |
| 3 | But Prince is either too frivolous or too religious for his flighty fancies to be pinned down to this discourse of responsibility and constructive intervention . |
| 4 | I settle down to this lovely rhythm and feel the health in my body . ’ |
| 5 | In a country as large as Australia the need for transportation fuels is paramount and even to keep growth down to this level will mean continuing efforts at economy by use of smaller cars and the replacement of oil-fired by coal-fired power stations . |
| 6 | It comes down to this : can the ERM be modified to preserve some of the benefits of exchange-rate stability , while allowing governments greater freedom to change monetary policy according to domestic economic circumstances ? |
| 7 | In essence , it came down to this : that he felt meaningless , empty , almost invisible unless one or more of her sex were doting on him . |
| 8 | ICL now has quite an array of Unixes running on its systems , from a Unix System Labs-derived , Sun Microsystems Inc SunOS-compatible Unix SVR4 on its Sparc-based DRS6000 series , to USL Unix SVR4 on the Intel DRS3000 servers , down to this latest shrink-wrapped offering and SCO stuff at the low-end . |
| 9 | It simply comes down to this : if deer are not culled , they die of starvation . |
| 10 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 11 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 12 | right , science , right come on then let's get down to this ! |
| 13 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 14 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 15 | ‘ In the end I think the problem comes down to this : what does public policy demand as best to be done ? |
| 16 | And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up . |
| 17 | I just remember them wheeling me down to this room and going to sleep . |
| 18 | And by er nineteen twenty six the engineers suffered a calamitous drop from about er four pound odd down to this two pound sixteen . |
| 19 | But there there was no facilities for running on you see and when when we had to ride that one , the chair would come down to this inset ninety yards you see ? |
| 20 | And the pensioners go down to this bungalow free , and it 's in lovely spot and we gave something like two thousand pound for it . |
| 21 | ’ Then send it down to this position to pick me up ’ . |
| 22 | The financial accounting question comes down to this : which year(s) bears the 10,000 ? |
| 23 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 24 | On the way to Upper Halling we find that the names have come down to us unaltered , to our right we have Yew Tree Kill , which has disappeared into the chalk quarry , also the Vicarage Close , further on and still on our right is Foxes ' Hole , a name that has continued down to this day . |
| 25 | And there was a a path which had been trodden back and forth down to this er shaft with a pump on it . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know what sort of a game you 're playing here but unless you tell me exactly why you 've had me drive all the way down to this God-forsaken place I 'm going straight back through that door ! ’ |
| 27 | But his thoughts were elsewhere , as he still could n't understand why the Academy would send anyone down to this class D planet . |
| 28 | Before we er knuckle down to this list , tell me , how m |
| 29 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 30 | If we just go back to the plan in the future , erm , and we move down to this section here , let's look at the questions we 're asking . |