Example sentences of "[adv] down [prep] [noun sg] [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 | Church had followed his Albatros right down to ground level . |
| 3 | It needs to make access top information simple , right down to desktop level . |
| 4 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 5 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 8 | Colebrooke marched up and down as if he was on parade whilst Mistress Philippa leaned against the wall , looking sorrowfully down at Tower Green . |
| 9 | Unfortunately your head has a more down to earth message that stops you mid-melody . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I casually wondered how I would get out if a bomb went off down at ground level . |
| 13 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 14 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 15 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 16 | Then it was back down to ground level to celebrate over a bottle of champagne with Zoe 's mum , Pat , and husband Joe . |
| 17 | Now down into crawler gear he pushes on , finding regular protection by the simple expedient of removing most of the ice ! |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |
| 19 | She swung lithely down to Dream Baby 's gaudily painted deck and cushioned the two hulls . |
| 20 | Then I twisted the film and note together into a paper towel and went out to try to find Bill Baudelaire , reckoning it might be all right to speak to him casually down on ground level since Filmer was n't there to see . |
| 21 | When it returns to surface daylight , it flows quietly down to valley level at Ribblehead ; here it adopts the name of River Ribble and turns south on its long journey to Preston and the Irish Sea . |