Example sentences of "[noun sg] be down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can imagine busy hands flying around the cockpit selecting emergency oxygen on , power down , airbrakes out , wait until speed is down to manoeuvring values , add drag if necessary , then push the nose down . |
| 2 | My weight is down to 8st 10lb and my appetite is not much easier to control . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |
| 4 | I had the windscreen wipers on again and our speed was down to less than 30 k.p.h . |
| 5 | Definitions are difficult , but so far as the workstation market can be defined , Dataquest reckons that it gained only 4.2% in 1992 , following a 14.5% gain in 1991 , and suggests that the slowdown in revenue was down to the overall mix of workstations shipped shifting towards lower-priced systems , and to the poor economic climate in Japan , so that the market crept up to $9,000m . |
| 6 | The day was cold and snow was down to 1500′ . |
| 7 | Their lead over the patrol boat was down to two hundred yards . |
| 8 | The annual budget of NAEP was once as much as 7.1 million dollars ( about £3.5 million pounds ) , although by 1982 the figure was down to 3.88 million dollars . |
| 9 | But this year , the figure was down to 2,558 , so since the general election , unemployment has fallen by 28.7 per cent . |
| 10 | By 1979 , the figure was down to 367,000 . |
| 11 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 12 | For a while it seemed as if all the woes of Welsh rugby were down to The Gnoll — though this theory was eventually disproved by the World Cup . |
| 13 | Capacity is down to just over 90 million tonnes . |
| 14 | If it begins to look doubtful that the site can be reached and the glider is down to 1,000 feet , it is time to select the best possible field within easy reach and to make a safe landing in it . |
| 15 | By the time that the glider is down to 500 feet or so , an inexperienced pilot often will have forgotten the wind direction , and if he realises this it will increase his anxiety . |
| 16 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 17 | Whereas in 1987–8 some 14 per cent of their wheat imports came as aid , in 1988–9 the percentage was down to 11 per cent . |
| 18 | The commerce sector was down to 7.8 per cent growth in 1990 , from 8.3 per cent in 1989 , and transport and communications also recorded a slight fall in growth , at 8.8 per cent compared with 9.4 per cent in 1989 . |
| 19 | ‘ The dog 's heartbeat was down to 25 to 30 when the average is 75 to 80 for the needs of the body , ’ he said … |
| 20 | A dozen years ago , half ICI 's sales were in the UK , tying the company 's fortunes to Britain 's anaemic manufacturing industry and putting it at a colossal disadvantage to rivals in more robust economies ; last year , the proportion was down to 21% , against 31% in the Americas , 25% in continental Europe , 17% in the Asia-Pacific region and 6% elsewhere . |
| 21 | Any impression of calm and harmony is down to the fact that everyone close to the band has obviously passed the Krypton Factor -sponsored How To Tolerate Courtney test . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that Ibanez 's current high profile is down to a marketing policy which borders on genius . |
| 23 | A Jaguar of the same vintage is down to just £7,000 , and an H-registration Ford Scorpio 2.0i automatic which currently costs £18,000 could be yours for a mere £6,850. depreciation of more than £5,000 a year , or £100 per week . |
| 24 | North of Greenland and central Canada the shelf is down to 450 m deep . |
| 25 | The membership was down to 298 and existing members were urged to get friends to join . |
| 26 | In mid-1990 the BSP reported a membership of 1,000,000 ; a year later membership was down to approximately 500,000 . |
| 27 | During the eighties the proportion of employees in union membership was down to forty eight percent in nineteen ninety , from fifty eight percent in nineteen ni eighty four . |
| 28 | I insisted in my foreword that spiritual warfare was down to earth and it is no less than modernity where the battle is now raging . |
| 29 | Golden Girl 's lead was down to a quarter of a mile . |
| 30 | With just over 20 miles to go Curry led Boone by 1.10 , but the less experienced Roe Valley rider was starting to slow , and as they came past the finish line with 16 miles remaining his lead was down to 48 seconds . |