Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 2 | Green Believers are now pressing the priests of rich-world industry to scan supply chains right down to their poor-world beginnings . |
| 3 | From the filament in the fog lamps right down to the washers on the wipers . |
| 4 | They lowered their voices right down to the floor . |
| 5 | The recent cuts in the mortgage rate — with the cost of borrowing on homes now down to around the 7–8% level — will also fuel a wave of spending in the high street . |
| 6 | Dogs have been bred for many different tasks , from the massive guard dogs and fighting dogs right down to the little toy dogs and lap-dogs . |
| 7 | The Environmental Protection Act ( EPA ) , has a whole host of implications right down to the type of paint we can use by 1998 . |
| 8 | Black dresses right down to our ankles . |
| 9 | The city was designed for these machines even down to the shape of control switches on their instruments . |
| 10 | Church had followed his Albatros right down to ground level . |
| 11 | The first part was splendid , since on the west side the Forest rises steeply to about eight hundred metres before the high plateau slopes gradually down to the Danube basin . |
| 12 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 13 | Asparagus , ignoring the growth of weeds , sank its serpentine roots far down to where bones , once carrying flesh for foxhounds , now formed the foundation for the greatest asparagus beds in the county ; its spears were famed for their luscious , indecent appearance , when served at Sunday luncheon parties from early May to the end of June . |