Example sentences of "[noun sg] down to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lane down to the harbour was steep ; the oncoming wind would be of positive benefit . |
| 2 | His professional engineering career started on the truck side , and he sees his task mainly as miniaturisation to bring all the advantages of power and economy enjoyed by the heavy goods diesel driver down to the size where they can also be of benefit to the motorist . |
| 3 | Although I accept the necessity to improve traffic flows and safety on the M25 , may I ask my hon. Friend to take into account environmental considerations such as the need to keep noise down to a minimum ? |
| 4 | As you start brushing , part the hair down to the skin and keep the unbrushed hair separate from the brushed coat . |
| 5 | She had long , black hair down to the waist of her tight satin bodice . |
| 6 | The ship reached the coastline just after sunrise and began to follow it in a south-easterly direction down to the sea . |
| 7 | We have to balance this response with a consideration of the relationship the participants develop with the trainers , and to put some of the enthusiastic response down to a desire to please us and to peer group pressure . |
| 8 | Fine cut lawns and terraced gardens lead from the main building down to the lake , and a pretty little pebble beach with safe swimming . |
| 9 | There is the feel of a cold offshore mist to the hospital room , a life-is-a-bitch feel , made sharp by the hostile ganglia of medical technology , plasma bags dripping , vile tubing snaking in and out of the body , blinking monitors levelling illusion , muffling existence down to a sort of digital bingo . |
| 10 | She had to be careful on the stairway down to the quay , because it was steep and the treads were so narrow . |
| 11 | While this was being done , Byrne and Phillips went off on a recce down to the road . |
| 12 | Sally was standing on a table , with yards of black silk wound tightly round her from her neck down to the floor . |
| 13 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 14 | In the boathouse , she helped her father tie the boat down to the rock . |
| 15 | That 's Soundgarden 's manager , it goes from the f—in' highest level of people in the music industry down to the street punk kids . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes I have to dig a path through the snow down to the stream and use a pick on the frozen stream . |
| 17 | The new factory was built on the far side of the property , leaving Barlaston surveying a fine sweep of parkland down to a river widened to look like a lake . |
| 18 | year 's low death toll down to an increase in security force presence in loyalist and republican strongholds . |
| 19 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
| 20 | Doreen puts her youthful zest down to the fact that she met ‘ the right man at the right time ’ . |
| 21 | I told him I would , so we walked side by side down to the garden , reached a secluded place , and we went at it . |
| 22 | The vital veins from her lungs — the pulmonary veins — were n't draining in to her heart , but into a chamber which bypassed it and sent blood down to the liver instead . |
| 23 | But if ever you are in real difficulties , send the car down to the jail about midnight and I will come and show you how to get out of them . ’ |
| 24 | No matter what type of filter plates is employed , it must be remembered that cichlids love to dig and should they remove the gravel down to the plate then , in effect , the filter ceases to function properly . |
| 25 | Here 's a simply suggestion why do n't you move the facilities from the stage door club down to the foyer bar so that a load of people can go in there you 'd change the general denouement of the foyer bar . |
| 26 | And certainly we have kept the amou the amount of administration down to a bear minimum if I can show you . |
| 27 | Isobel and Dorothy were battling their way against the wind down to the bus stop , the following morning , when they met Hank hunched up in his old black zipper jacket and a pair of earmuffs , which gave him a quaintly catlike appearance . |
| 28 | After completing the cable , run the stitch down to the bottom of the pattern and reverse the stitch in rib fashion at each side of the cable , using the latch tool , as shown in the diagrams . |
| 29 | The creation of structure was for a purpose : the hermetic principle of ‘ as above , so below ’ , imitating the macrocosm in the microcosm , bringing the vastness of nature and the universe down to a scale we can relate to . |
| 30 | He strips the silhouette down to a jacket which snakes into and flares out from a neatly fitted waist , teamed with the leanest leggings and matching over-the-knee boots . |