Example sentences of "[be] down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 2 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 3 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 4 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 5 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 7 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 8 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 9 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 10 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 11 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 12 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 14 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 15 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 16 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 17 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 18 | But now we 're down to the bottom of the barrel . |
| 19 | They 're down to the squirrels . ’ |
| 20 | Any rethink by the NRA would be down to the persistence of the members , he said . |
| 21 | It must be down to the record companies . |
| 22 | Of course , some of the LSE II 's bass response must be down to the rosewood back and sides ; the chances are the mahogany version would be toppier-sounding , but both would make equally top-notch recording guitars . |
| 23 | I drove it both times in similar test conditions , so any change would be down to the car . |
| 24 | As he preceded what he now thought of as a mythical being down to the canteen , he thought about how he 'd once found the sight of Zambia 's adjustments repulsive and unnatural . |
| 25 | Conservative actually being down to the traffic calming . |
| 26 | For a while it seemed as if all the woes of Welsh rugby were down to The Gnoll — though this theory was eventually disproved by the World Cup . |
| 27 | Britain 's most famous ticket-broker said he will defy all his critics and remain as chairman , and claimed his problems were down to the media . |
| 28 | He says much of his success is down to the backroom boys . |
| 29 | Apart from the voltage of the battery , the re-charge time is an important feature of the cordless tool and this is down to the chargers . |
| 30 | ‘ The decision for the tour to go ahead is down to the ANC , ’ said Hain . |