Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens if you actually try and get down to absolute zero or even pass the other side ? |
| 2 | The extreme flexibility of the Course allows part-time students to change later to a full-time mode , just as it allows full-timers to drop down to part-time study . |
| 3 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |
| 4 | As Heath went down to electoral defeat in February 1974 , the yellowing of the 1970 Reorganisation of Central Government White Paper was the last thing on people 's mind . |
| 5 | At that entrance , every ship goes through a painstaking security check examination right down to molecular level , which can seem endless . |
| 6 | Then at the crucial point which only his body can decide , either he 'll drop ’ — she slapped the table — ‘ down to normal inside of a few hours , or his temp . |
| 7 | At the mention of Whillans ’ middle-aged spread , Steve smiles and observes that while he and Greg Child began the climbing thin and disappeared , Whillans trimmed down to normal weight . |
| 8 | Finish by slowing back down to normal training pace again for the last 16 to 17 minutes . |
| 9 | Westminster Evening Institute also settled down to serious work . |
| 10 | Tomorrow she really must settle down to serious work on her novel ; time was slipping past , her deadline was approaching and if she did n't get on with it she 'd have Joe making agitated phone calls and coming down to visit . |
| 11 | Then the crew got down to serious drinking . |
| 12 | It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate . |
| 13 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 14 | Rather , supporters tend to wait until the seemingly inevitable lapse of concentration in defence before expecting the side to get down to serious business . |
| 15 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 16 | And then it is down to serious show business with the climax on Saturday afternoon when the Expo champion is announced . |
| 17 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 18 | Work on the two drainage ditches to keep water off the deck has now been completed and we have now done some work to provide steps down to trackbed level . |
| 19 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 20 | ‘ She came down to Aberconwy School where we all were and said she wanted all the mothers and babies to stay with her , ’ said Tracey Parker . |
| 21 | Then they come down to that price . |
| 22 | It 's down to that individual is n't it ? |
| 23 | ‘ We see the volume just getting down to that core set who will see increased demand , ’ he said , adding that the industry 's top 10 companies had 58% of 1992 sales . |
| 24 | Dismissing him with difficulty from her mind , she went to her bedroom , smiling at the familiar old room , the shutters flung wide , overlooking the dusty terrace below , the bright pink bougainvillaea trailing like a Schiaparelli ballgown from the bleached balustrade walls below , down the rugged red cliffs , down to that turqouise , glittering sea . |
| 25 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 26 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is power that is going to ensure go down to that level of decision making , to those people who know the problems best and would be able to deliver the right solutions . |
| 29 | At thirty quid , all but 5p , I originally thought the package was a wee bit overpriced — I 'd have said £20 was a better price point for it , but then I expect that it will be discounted down to that level anyway . |
| 30 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |