Example sentences of "[adv] to a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These pragmatic reforms have much to commend them — especially to a government that is ready neither for new legislation nor for big increases in regulatory costs . |
| 2 | Management is negotiating with the workforce a strategy to bring the structure of the business down to a size that matches its present turnover . |
| 3 | Like a sea-anemone it will close down to a blob if touched , and it feeds on small organisms which brush past its tentacles , by shooting out special poisonous threads to paralyse its victim , which can then be collected by the tentacles and drawn into the hydra 's mouth . |
| 4 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 5 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 6 | ‘ Their first goal was down to a mistake and the second was so easy for them it defies belief . |
| 7 | Only the Conservatives will substantially reduce the Community Charge in Oxford , and bring it down to a level that people can afford . |
| 8 | Or grind down to a powder if you want to add it to smooth sauces . |
| 9 | ‘ Bastard , ’ I say , gliding the ship down to a fuel-dump and a gentle landing . |
| 10 | Yeah it 's lovely there , yeah it 's erm a m just , a metre at both ends and then it shelves down to a metre and a half in the middle and it 's great , it 's warm , it 's , you know , it 's about about body heat actually . |
| 11 | I took a quick breath of relief as I heard it ; the engine of another boat , throttling down to a murmur as she crept into the bay . |
| 12 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 13 | He gestured across the lawn that ran down to a stream and then up again to his own cottage , which Thomas had given him as a wedding present . |
| 14 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 15 | Business come mid-afternoon will be down to a trickle as people head home to watch the F.A . |
| 16 | Hundreds have gone off ‘ to find themselves ’ before settling down to a career or further studies . |
| 17 | come down to a room and demand |
| 18 | Matthew had reached the woods and he slowed Bess down to a walk and bent down and caressed her neck . |
| 19 | Er certainly within package holiday companies itself , competition was intense during this period and price being the major factor in determinants of demand , all the tour operators try to keep price down to a minimum and over this period you would find the average price for a package holiday would barely have changed one year to the next . |
| 20 | Using something tangible like photographs keeps the memory load down to a minimum and eases the stress of always having to think of something to say . |
| 21 | Although you ca n't shrink CPAV down to an icon while it does a lengthy scan , you can use Alt+Tab to bring other Windows apps to the top of the pile . |
| 22 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 23 | These relationships can be further refined down to an entity or primitive level in the intersection between the two geometric domains . |
| 24 | But if she did I think she will pass out on her record because perhaps , even more delightful than someone who , you know , sitting down to an exam and , and doing reasonably well on it . |
| 25 | She had already experienced difficulty in pinning her fellow walker down to an interview and , for all she could tell , might have further difficulty in that area . |
| 26 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |
| 27 | Erm I had a company called and Advertising erm where I went along to a company and would conceive promotion for them . |
| 28 | I mean if you had to take it along to a shop and |
| 29 | Cos if I sing , when I 'm doing my homework if I sing along to a tape or something I start writing the words down . |
| 30 | Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint . |