Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 2 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 3 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 4 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 5 | William 's life — like that of nearly everyone else in Santa Fe — appears to be both blameless and obscure , and is occupied principally with the farming of bananas and taro plants on the shallow hillsides that slope down to a sluggish tributary of the Rio Sabanas . |
| 6 | It would be too easy to put everything down to a typical case of hysteria , but what if there was something else , some underlying cause ? |
| 7 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 8 | Yet it was down to a collective lack of desire , which was the problem against Watford . ’ |
| 9 | At the time she 'd put that pass down to a reflex action of a man who could n't let any opportunity pass him by , but now she was beginning to have doubts that he was as shallow as she 'd first thought . |
| 10 | In fact , as we have seen , it boils down to a moral evaluation of differentiation ( rather than a ‘ scientific ’ finding ) : the differences that distinguish criminals are things that are deemed to have ‘ gone wrong ’ with their biology , psyche or values . |
| 11 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 12 | Still under heavy fire from artillery and mortars , and themselves down to a small amount of ammunition , the remnants of the 1 st Bucks stood fast until dark . |
| 13 | He would settle down to a contented programme of long walks , daily spells of observation in the Britches , and some leisurely reflection on work projects for his pupils next year . |
| 14 | The light now dies down to a mere flicker of ‘ fire ’ , appropriate enough considering the onslaught of death imagery with ‘ death-bed ’ , ‘ ashes ’ , ‘ expire ’ and perhaps , again , ‘ consumed ’ . |
| 15 | In February 1989 inflation was down to a monthly rate of 3.6 per cent compared with 28.8 per cent in December 1988 and 37 per cent in January 1989 , but accelerated sharply over the following months , reaching a monthly rate of 53.55 per cent by December . |
| 16 | And it comes down to a basic difference of approach to this . |
| 17 | Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown , and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast . |
| 18 | These were narrowed down to a short list of 13 from which Jim 's was selected as best-overall . |
| 19 | That the Pendletons ' party ended up at Reading was down to a fair measure of fluke . |
| 20 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 21 | What in fact they want is to find out the basis upon which the plaintiff is making the claim , to tie the plaintiff down to a particular set of allegations before the engineer goes in . |
| 22 | In the annual report of the Ministry of Health it had been said that it was the practice , in some wards , to require a casual who was locked in a cell by himself to break a given quantity of stone , often very hard , down to a specified standard of size which was reached when it could be passed through a ring : |
| 23 | Haddad said that the aim would be selective growth with the co-operation of business and labour ; the government would be pleased , he said , if it could bring inflation down to an annualized rate of 60 per cent . |
| 24 | Indeed , holding prices down to an inefficient level of costs may be inferior in its effects to a form of control in which prices are high but costs are low . |
| 25 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 26 | John ran his float down to the inside stantion of the old railway bridge . |
| 27 | Mary smiled as she negotiated the three awkward steps down to the sunken floor of the huge kitchen . |
| 28 | I wait by the gate as they pick their way down to the slimy bottom of the dip . |
| 29 | From Harrop Tarn the packhorse route leads on to Blea Tarn ( 1.5 miles ) and then down to the small hamlet of Watendlath ( 2 miles ) , situated at the end of a narrow valley next to a small tarn . |
| 30 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |