Example sentences of "come down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So when does the value come down to zero , well it comes down to zero when the bit we 're taking away is equal to that .
2 Well if we put the money into sets , lots of ten and the people into lots of ten we could cancel those tens out and it would just come down to five over fifteen .
3 The idea was that , if the government simply ‘ announced ’ that the rate of inflation in the coming year would be such and such , and reduced the rate of interest in line with that forecast , public expectations would adjust accordingly , and the rate of inflation would come down to that level .
4 I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now .
5 I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now .
6 The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises .
7 So I do think that the , I do n't think it actually does necessarily come down to glossy brochures , but I think it is a management attitude erm , in terms of mark developing a very much more pro-active marketing approach to going out and competing aggressively in the market place for the contracts .
8 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 ?
9 The postcode is broken down into , obviously figures and numbers , C M's , denotes sort of the Chelmsford area , or for whatever it might be in yo in your area , then you 'll come down to either twenty , eighteen , whatever that is .
10 One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve .
11 I 'll come down on that day and pick it up from you at 2pm .
12 There are clearly — even just for music — a variety of options , and the school must eventually come down for one pattern of timing rather than another .
13 He 'll not come down for two week !
14 would n't knock he would n't come down at all and then the everywhere else were knock some off if the market 's not very good at the moment .
15 He ca n't come down at Kisangani airport because Gog is there with a lot of his guards .
16 The price of organic food can only come down with bigger subsidies to organic farmers .
17 ‘ Ah , I will come down in one minute , madam .
18 Did it come down in remote forest land where it still lay , gradually decaying ?
19 ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’
20 So when we , you see there 's no good putting anything in there erm or doing anything with it if we 're not going to use it or if it 's got ta come down in another year or two .
21 But our feet will come down like that .
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