Example sentences of "[art] [noun] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An experienced headhunter could narrow the field down to short-list stage much more quickly and cost-effectively , Tagg argued . |
| 2 | The dispute took place after the English victory at Agincourt and at a time of growing alliance between Henry V and the Emperor Sigismund against the French , and there is little doubt that the principal French spokesman on the subject , Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly , was largely concerned with cutting the enemy down to size . |
| 3 | It is much more his business to stir up curiosity than to insist on acceptances. , Pound as critic cuts the critic down to size ; which is , one may think , a pressing need , now , in 1984 . |
| 4 | Creech Jones congratulated the committee on producing a constitution which would have the effect of cutting the CPP down to size . |
| 5 | I can make this engine more efficient — there is a method of recondensing the steam so that it can be re-used — and I can design a firebox which will burn the fuel down to ash . |
| 6 | Gerwyn explains , ‘ You take a block of woodland , and leaving the occasional tree known as a standard , traditionally used for building timber , you cut the rest down to ground level and remove all the waste timber completely . |
| 7 | The waymarked tourist path to the summit of Ben Lomond in the recently created Loch Lomond regional park has become , in the words of the conservationists ‘ a four lane motorway ’ , which at its worst cuts a deep furrow through the peak down to bedrock . |
| 8 | Alcock saw this as another opportunity to produce valuable results , but first , he would have to learn the stars down to magnitude eight , over six times fainter than those visible to the naked eye . |
| 9 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
| 10 | He 's asked if you could pack some things from his house and bring the suitcase down to Immigration at Grantley Adams Airport at 7.30 this evening . |
| 11 | It 's a lot neater and we 've cut the door down to size so that |
| 12 | Take the kite down to ground level and at either side , it will again reach a point where the aerodynamic forces are balanced , and it hovers nose into wind , the spine horizontal and cross-spars vertical . |
| 13 | After twenty minutes or so , turn the oven down to gas mark 4 , 180°C/325°F and roast for a further twenty minutes per pound . |
| 14 | Reduce power enough to ensure a rate of descent which will bring the model down to ground level just in front of you . |
| 15 | ON MY third voyage as a cadet , on the way down to West Africa war was declared . |
| 16 | It 's the distance the axe is swung back ( without overdoing it ) that allows power and speed to be gathered on the way down to impact . |
| 17 | To put the feat down to ESP is boring , because it simply stops any further enquiry . |
| 18 | Lithuania defiantly votes to cut the party down to size . |
| 19 | The slope down to Rock Creek began to steepen and the shops thinned out as they moved away from the centre . |
| 20 | Yet when Luzma , my sympathetic travel agent , took me in a taxi down to contrabando in Cuzco , it had not been to buy a camera . |
| 21 | " They go there to fetch the nurses on night shift and give them a lift down to hospital . " |