Example sentences of "[vb pp] down to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the animal may use up much of the ‘ reserve ’ oxygen ( held principally in the muscles , bound to the pigment myoglobin ) ; and , more significantly , it will derive much of the energy it needs by anaerobic respiration , in which sugar is broken down to lactic acid , without the use of oxygen . |
| 2 | Channel 2 is essentially the same , but there 's no ‘ mid ’ control , no EQ preset button and the tone controls have been honed down to just bass and treble . |
| 3 | He 's a Russian émigré — came out just after the Revolution , although he had been part of it himself , and I do n't think he 's ever really settled down to ordinary life . |
| 4 | Westminster Evening Institute also settled down to serious work . |
| 5 | But I think we could of gone down to British Home Stores , but we both probably would have spent more , than , |
| 6 | ‘ Places like Ayr , Largs and Helensburgh which currently have trains until late at night and weekends would be cut down to peak-hour commuter services because they are the only ones that make money . |
| 7 | Therefore , the soil has to be removed down to firm ground , and a firm foundation prepared for the side walls . |
| 8 | They will realise they can not change everything ; the hours spent re-inventing government or shifting paradigms will be put down to youthful inexperience . |
| 9 | Nor was the agoge , or rigid training system , a good way for generals , or anybody else , to learn initiative ; great Spartan successes like the first battle of Mantinea ( 41 8 ) are put down to Spartan gnome , ‘ resolution ’ , almost ‘ guts ’ — rather than leadership . |
| 10 | In a way , it has to be put down to mutual dependence . |
| 11 | These losses were largely put down to aggressive lending to domestic property and corporate sectors , both of which were now in recession . |
| 12 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 13 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 14 | No I mean I I do n't think what happened on Piper can be put down to basic safety . |
| 15 | [ the mark-up ] is kept down to modest size by the existence of many independent firms within the corporate sector ; by the availability , elsewhere in the corporate sector , of reasonably close substitutes for the products of any one firm ; and by the perennial threat of new entry into any field in which the monopoly mark-up is large . |
| 16 | That has now been toned down to special envoy , who British officials hope will be on a fact-finding mission rather than being the mediator originally suggested . |
| 17 | Near Pantelleria the formation was fired on , so dived down to low level where Plt.Off . |