Example sentences of "[adj] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's twenty two acre and we put all of that down to barley for er . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na get some and take some down to grandma 's grave so I fe , I feel really guilty we 've not been there since Christmas eve ! |
| 3 | Singles : Moncur bt Bifield 2 and 1 , Alabaster bt Wells 2 and 1 , Downton lost 3 and 2 to Wilson , Hales lost 6 and 5 to Wilcox , Breeze halved with Neverton , Smith lost 2 down to West , adair lost 2 and 1 to Parrott , Robarts ( ret hurt ) lost to Burr . |
| 4 | I am beckoned , ‘ You must take this down to desk number twenty-three . |
| 5 | It was noticeable that infringements occurred in the last quarter more than in the rest of the game and I put this down to tiredness and a resulting lack of concentration . |
| 6 | Carefully , he narrowed this down to opinion , but this was a highly pressurised role where he had to think carefully over every throwaway line . |
| 7 | ‘ One or two people will be ready to put this down to plastic but our goals were nothing to do with plastic . |
| 8 | Under the old two group format it was very much down to luck as to who you were drawn with , the new system is much better , it allows for the odd hiccup , gives an extra dimension to every game and rewards those teams that perform on the day . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 10 | Square and rectangular frames are usually made from 2-m ( 7-ft ) lengths of moulding , which are then cut down to size . |
| 11 | This area is seen as only one of a number of possible future points of development , for plans are being discussed for setting up a linked structure of subject panels from national down to district and location level to give all teachers the opportunity to comment on materials and raise suggestions for new approaches . |
| 12 | I can collect Miss Maynard from Liverpool Street and then drive us all down to Hillmarden together . ’ |
| 13 | It 's all down to money . |
| 14 | So what of Councillor claim that it 's all down to lack of Government cash . |
| 15 | It 's all down to confusion rather than deliberate ignorance , so it 's worth covering the whole idea of shareware , how it differs from other types of software such as public domain , and what the user 's obligations are both legally and morally . |
| 16 | It was all down to confidence , thought Lydia . |
| 17 | Beautiful hair is not all down to nature — more often than not , it 's a result of a regular treatment programme with the right products . |
| 18 | I know that none of us has any choice about what we eat ; it 's all down to drainage , and some systems are obviously better than others . |
| 19 | It 's all down to time and motion study ; fill seven haynets at the weekend and you 'll save yourself time in the week . |
| 20 | It 's all down to pressure to keep production going and also if you do everyone perfectly rightly you run the risk of closing the mine , or putting six or seven hundred men on the dole . |
| 21 | Life makes the worst video you 've ever seen look like a masterpiece , and the episode I 'm about to relate was well down to par in this respect . |
| 22 | The sort of girls who would quickly come to the fore are the sort of Malory-Towers-Swallows-and-Amazons type ; practical down to earth and capable , but there would probably be many unlike that who would be perfectly handless when it came to organisation and practicalities . |
| 23 | Thus canons often have tonic and dominant relationships , and in order to preserve a single tonality the 4th leap downwards from tonic to dominant often has to be followed by a leap of a 5th ( dominant down to tonic ) . |
| 24 | She would be voting Conservative and said Mr Major was a ‘ fair down to earth , very nice man ’ . |
| 25 | And sort of , dead down to earth and everything and it showed you a clip out of National Velvet when she was twelve years old you know erm that with the horse in it and that ? |
| 26 | I 'll expect you both down to dinner at eight . ’ |