Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Chris Powell and Adam Locke could do little to bring John King 's flight-to-the-moon Rovers down to earth . |
| 2 | But when Roland Jarvis — Jim Leng 's predecessor as chief executive — took over in 1984 , he instituted a programme of rationalisations and disposals to focus Bonar 's diverse interests down to packaging and specialist materials . |
| 3 | While FAO earlier reports ( 1960 , 1965 , 1966 ) and others ( cited in Ch. 4.2 ) put these practices down to ignorance , there are many examples where knowledge is not the scarce factor , but the resources to put this knowledge into practice . |
| 4 | By convention , these include all stars down to magnitude 1.4 . |
| 5 | But with night-time temperatures down to minus 6 at times this month , it 's increasingly having to turn people away . |
| 6 | Ziggy beams down to earth |
| 7 | NEW Welsh Secretary John Redwood is to press ahead with plans to cut Welsh councils down to size . |
| 8 | Occasionally we may be able to identify a palm , fig , or olive tree , but even this is not enough to limit the location to a particular ecological zone ; oak trees , for instance , can be found from 680 metres down to sea-level . |
| 9 | Whirled through the magnetic fields of space until entrapped by the Earth 's own magnetic field , they crash into the upper atmosphere shattering the nuclei of atoms and projecting fragments and other particles down to Earth . |
| 10 | Being on breakfast duty , Alice and Emily were the first two pupils down to breakfast . |