Example sentences of "[modal v] come down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |
| 2 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 3 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
| 5 | The postcode is broken down into , obviously figures and numbers , C M's , denotes sort of the Chelmsford area , or for whatever it might be in yo in your area , then you 'll come down to either twenty , eighteen , whatever that is . |
| 6 | I 'll come down on that day and pick it up from you at 2pm . |
| 7 | Well this all had coal and , and the , the chimneys want wanted sweeping and if you did n't sweep your chimney regular the soot used to come down onto this water into , into this er boiler . |
| 8 | The idea was that , if the government simply ‘ announced ’ that the rate of inflation in the coming year would be such and such , and reduced the rate of interest in line with that forecast , public expectations would adjust accordingly , and the rate of inflation would come down to that level . |
| 9 | But there there was no facilities for running on you see and when when we had to ride that one , the chair would come down to this inset ninety yards you see ? |
| 10 | But our feet will come down like that . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , I will come down in one minute , madam . |