Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Newbegin said Go-Ahead Northern is currently taking delivery of 30 new single deck buses which will bring the average age down to 9.1 years by May . |
| 2 | The filters are of non stick nylon and singed polyester , filtering out particles down to 0.4 microns . |
| 3 | Indeed , the Secretary of State for the Environment has said that we should remove the county council layer of government and move down to all-purpose districts , the size and boundaries of which have yet to be decided . |
| 4 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 5 | Happy Charlotte Hughes puts her staying power down to regular habits . |
| 6 | Bids for more will be scaled down to 17,000 shares . |
| 7 | Sicilian wealth and power was coveted both by outside powers and by Syracuse , the greatest polis of Sicily down to Roman times . |
| 8 | Benefits of the system include a shortening of the production line by 400 metres and a saving in manufacturing time of 24% ( down to 26 hours for Safrane , as opposed to 34 hours for the Renault 25 ) . |
| 9 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |
| 10 | Fianna Fail 's formula is that once the Unionists get down to serious discussions they will be addressed . |
| 11 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 12 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 13 | However , it is a good discipline to bring your negotiations down to concise statements so that both have the same expectations . |
| 14 | If the hon. Gentleman looks at what has happened in Europe in the past decade — in France , Belgium , Denmark , Sweden and Italy — he will see that all those countries have devolved their powers down to regional authorities . |
| 15 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 16 | We cleared the trees and stopped on the brow of a small hill which fell down to snow-covered fields , broken here and there by small copses and woods . |
| 17 | Its diet consists of herring , mackerel , pilchard , rats-tails and argentines , also squid , and , as it will go down to 610 metres ( 334 fathoms ) deepwater species . |
| 18 | Ideally it should be laid in a fine carpet and not in higgledy-piggledy lumps that bream can break down to easy mouthfuls . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's down to individual players , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 21 | It 's normally down to individual circumstances . |
| 22 | The exceedence and measured parameters are then passed to an expert system which tries to diagnose faults down to individual components . |
| 23 | In some cases , however , the fine structure , even down to individual cells , is splendidly preserved , and these are the most important specimens from a scientific point of view . |
| 24 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 25 | Down to nine men , our lads deserve the highest praise for a 3–3 draw . |
| 26 | Thame 's Russell was then dismissed for dissent taking them down to nine men , from which there was no way back and Headington ran out comfortable winners . |
| 27 | We settled down to nine channels of T.V. and a tour of the room-service menu , ordering things we 'd only read about — pastrami on rye ; blue-jack cheese ; sourdough bread and grits and black-eyed beans . |
| 28 | If the purpose of these ivory carvings remains a matter for discussion , it is evident that Upper Palaeolithic man began the custom of using ivory as a medium for animal and human sculpture which has lasted down to modern times . |
| 29 | Where they survived as currency down to modern times , as they did in west Africa and locally in south-east Asia , it was only as small change . |
| 30 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |