Example sentences of "[adv prt] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haddad said that the aim would be selective growth with the co-operation of business and labour ; the government would be pleased , he said , if it could bring inflation down to an annualized rate of 60 per cent . |
| 2 | The good housekeeping exercise which we 've just circulated the documents on , which we 'll be consulting on in two weeks time tt er it mainly is about changing the organization to allow us to delegate authority down to an appropriate level . |
| 3 | Although the Jewish community in Romania was small — down to an estimated 15,000 , largely concentrated in Bucharest — anti-Semitism had become more evident since the revolution , with verbal attacks on the Jewish background of certain politicians . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's kept down to an absolute bare minimum . |
| 5 | Flats ( 1970 ) rules sequence down to an absolute minimum and spatializes the narrative by creating Beckett-like ‘ characters ’ who are personified place-names . |
| 6 | The fireman will be another casualty of the modern steam age : his place in the cab will be taken by a computer which will monitor the coal feed closely , to keep smoke down to an absolute minimum . |
| 7 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 8 | This means that the already very sleek 1 inch thickness on the top edge slims down to an amazing ″ at its thinnest point . |
| 9 | Beyond this , four short steps led down to an oval door let into a solid steel bulkhead . |
| 10 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 11 | She was to find out that something would startle her like this and then quieten down to an apparent normality , only to find that she had really been shaken up into accepting an entirely unnatural situation and adapting it to the flow of her life . |
| 12 | We went down to an awful Wimpy Bar opposite Chagueramas — which later became The Roxy . |
| 13 | The two belligerents having accepted this text in principle , Perez de Cuellar 's task , involving a bout of shuttle diplomacy , was now to pin them down to an actual cease-fire on the ground . |
| 14 | There was only one last contretemps before the hotel settled down to an uneasy sleep . |
| 15 | ORGANIC SOILS are formed under waterlogged conditions and contain very high amounts of organic matter down to an arbitrary specified depth . |
| 16 | Growing up in a South African mining town , the son of a reasonably successful lawyer , he might easily have settled down to an ordinary , respectable career , following his father into law , perhaps , as one of his cousins did , or becoming an architect like another of them . |
| 17 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 18 | I sometimes go down to an 18 when maggot fishing or a single brandling or grain of sweetcorn on a 16 , but it is not very often such refinements are necessary . |
| 19 | It was strange that this wild young man settled down to an exemplary career as a Marine and on retirement became a probation officer . |
| 20 | Grant 's heart leapt into his mouth and he was convinced Larsen was going to lose his nerve , then his grip on the rope , to plummet down to an unthinkable death . |
| 21 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 22 | Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking . |
| 23 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 24 | She had let her guard down to an enormous extent and the idea of going back to her old life was actually frightening . |
| 25 | That he did not was largely down to an opening seven-frame blast from Parrott . |
| 26 | Already trailing two matches to one in the series the situation was dire when the English duo stepped onto the 16th tee one down to an American duo comprising the U.S. Open Champion , Curtis Strange , and the U.S. P.G.A . |
| 27 | Towards the edge of the wood , where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond , only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog 's mercury and oak-tree roots . |
| 28 | The requirement for disinfection of food contact surfaces , therefore , applies in general only to those areas where high risk foods are handled or to situations where levels of micro-organisms must be kept down to an acceptable level to maintain shelf life . |
| 29 | Even during piling an compacting , ‘ silent ’ plant equipment was selected to keep the noise down to an acceptable sound level . |
| 30 | On this the spokesman said , ‘ the Vulcan will no be flown any more ’ adding , ‘ it would be down to an acceptable purchaser to arrange for any ferrying . ’ |