Example sentences of "[adv] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Performance indicators quickly became used as a diagnostic tool to " inform " the accountability reviews which in turn developed " from departmental monitoring of broad strategies to deep monitoring of short-term operational plans and of control systems stretching right down to unit level " ( Harrison et al. |
| 2 | They would n't , the miners hardly got anything and there used to be soup kitchens for us and er when it first started in nineteen twenty six and er I was pregnant with my second one and I used to walk right down to Pit with a lace , great big lace basket , they would n't let the men fetch the coal and we had to push the coal from there right to the , oh they 've no idea love , no idea . |
| 3 | They get right down to business . |
| 4 | Church had followed his Albatros right down to ground level . |
| 5 | It needs to make access top information simple , right down to desktop level . |
| 6 | Skinhead tastes are ‘ right down to earth ’ . |
| 7 | Then a few drops of water fell on the side and fell right down to earth . |
| 8 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 9 | Aware that the dress had a fey , other-worldish air that was light-years away from her own rather down to earth personality , Laura gave a nervous shrug of her shoulders . |
| 10 | The oxidation of carbohydrates requires the presence of an electron transport system which in most nematodes can operate aerobically down to oxygen tensions of 5.0 mm Hg or less . |
| 11 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 12 | I s I was still only down to sort of eleven stone , but if I get to like ten stone |
| 13 | There are some strange flights of fancy and there are also some extremely down to earth not to say earthy observations . |
| 14 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 15 | The incredible power was channelled harmlessly down to earth . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's just down to maturity . |
| 17 | But going for gold these days is more down to money than motivation . |
| 18 | The journey through Louisiana was more down to earth . |
| 19 | Wilde took poetic licence to the extreme , for the true story is much more down to earth . |
| 20 | The reality could not be more down to earth and straightforward , though there is much more to this player than meets the eye . |
| 21 | The third source is more down to earth . |
| 22 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 23 | When the smoke clears Pain Teens turn out to be more down to earth , a punky bar band who occasionally stray into territory that can best be described as extra terrestrial . |
| 24 | The Kitchenware Records spokesperson , brought up on Newcastle Brown , was more down to earth . |
| 25 | ‘ more down to earth , more devoted to our purposes than those of the author , less concerned with artistic values than with a faithful rendering of the subject 's experience and interpretation of the world he lives in . |
| 26 | For the more down to earth woodworker it is interesting that often the cordless drill is picked up in preference to the mains powered one for many tasks . |
| 27 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 28 | Unfortunately your head has a more down to earth message that stops you mid-melody . |
| 29 | More down to earth are essays on predicting the economy by Frank Hahn and the frontiers of medicine by Ian Kennedy . |
| 30 | Here is a more down to earth example than the ones suggested above : the drama is set in contemporary Britain , in a small rural area by the coast . |