Example sentences of "[vb -s] down to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you are aiming for is something like Fig. 9.3 where the pitch is reduced to around zero when the model is on its side , goes down to negative when inverted , back to zero when the helicopter is on its other side and finally back to normal . |
| 2 | each each year it sort of goes down to half . |
| 3 | Total income is slightly reduced , however , since tweed production goes down to 2 per week ( £4,368 ) . |
| 4 | In year two this actually drops down to twelve point six percent and in year three down to nine five percent . |
| 5 | Then the range of speeds that can be measured is very wide ; fractional Doppler shifts as small as 10 -15 can be measured and thus speeds down to less than — far lower than those normally encountered in fluid dynamics — though not all systems are capable of this . |
| 6 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
| 7 | antarcticus moulting occurs down to lower temperatures than in temperate stocks ( Burn , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister and every member of the government wants to hold fare increases down to reasonable levels and I 'm pleased that er at six percent average , that 's a reasonable contribution by the travelling passenger on British Rail and London Transport to the enormous investment sums that are required . |
| 9 | The private pilot , or group of pilots , gets down to some serious drinking and think about raising money . |
| 10 | Fitter Chris Colligan gets down to some steam cleaning |
| 11 | The leader , who is the tow aircraft for this sequence , dives down to 5000 ft . |
| 12 | But the government shielded consumers from the worst excesses of inflation by reducing the community charge burden , and businesses kept their price rises down to one of the lowest levels for 24 years . |
| 13 | ‘ Meanwhile , the other watcher races down to Far Field and tells me . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose it boils down to that … |
| 15 | He continued : " This experience boils down to one point : we must integrate the fundamental principles of Marxism with the concrete realities of the Chinese revolution and national development and keep to our own road . " |
| 16 | Unless it was somebody we have already used , and that really boils down to one person in York , and she 's shown no signs of applying , so . |
| 17 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 18 | Setting aside the polemical aspects of his argument , Honderich 's thesis boils down to three points . |
| 19 | In the vital chapter ‘ The Shadow of the Past ’ Gandalf says a great deal about it , but his information boils down to three basic data : ( 1 ) the Ring is immensely powerful , in right or wrong hands ; ( 2 ) it is dangerous and ultimately fatal to all its possessors — in a sense there are no right hands ; ( 3 ) it can not simply be left unused or put aside , but must be destroyed , something which can happen only in the place of its origin , Orodruin , Mount Doom . |
| 20 | The goods you buy are covered by the Sale of Goods Act ( 1979 ) which boils down to three important points : |
| 21 | The goods you buy are covered by the Sale of Goods Act ( 1979 ) which boils down to three important points : |
| 22 | Apparently the two suppliers are now agreed ( or have at last been convinced by third parties ) that a unified user environment for their respective Unix implementations , combining shared APIs and front-end elements — from desktop objects down to high-level system administration functions — makes sense . |
| 23 | Mansell slips down to third |
| 24 | The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi . |
| 25 | There are , however , several important differences between education and health in relation to economic growth which Mushkin narrows down to four . |
| 26 | By 1995 , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom intends a root-and-branch reorganisation of its data processing activities , by consolidating its 36 existing computer centres into six , and condensing its 45 applications development centres down to five . |
| 27 | By 1995 , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom intends a root-and-branch reorganisation of its data processing activities , by consolidating its 36 existing computer centres into six , and condensing its 45 applications development centres down to five . |
| 28 | CACI 's Shopping Centre Planner identifies 230 areas of retail activity in Great Britain , varying from major city centres down to small local shopping parades . |
| 29 | MACAULEY Culkin 's Kevin may be a dab hand with a booby trap but when it comes down to straightforward , grimy-faced scallywaggery , there are a couple of Irish lads in Into The West who could give him a run for his money . |
| 30 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |