Example sentences of "[vb pp] down to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Received opinion , based unduly on the word of sister Elisabeth , has it that Nietzsche began with the idea of a large book on Greek culture which , under Wagner 's influence and again its author 's real inclinations , was gradually whittled down to a book on Greek tragedy — and Wagner . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 3 | Although the long list of available versions of Mahler 's various symphonic off-spring can usually be whittled down to a shortlist without too much difficulty , the situation regarding praiseworthy recoding of the Third has almost reached saturation point . |
| 4 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 5 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 6 | Father-of-three Gordon Corps , 62 , collapsed at 11,500ft on a mountain and died as he was being carried down to a base camp . |
| 7 | On 14 December 1991 , the south-southeast-trending fracture widened ( maximum extension by April 1992 , 1.5m ) , lava was erupted close to the summit , and by 15 December activity had moved down to a site 2,400m a.s.l. where the fracture intersects the western cliff wall of the Valle del Bove . |
| 8 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 9 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 10 | Very often an organisational problem can be tracked down to a mismatch between an established structure and new processes formed in response to new events and pressures . |
| 11 | Temperatures were measured down to a depth of 5 kilometres , where seasonal fluctuations have no effect . |
| 12 | THE fuss about BSE — mad cow disease — has died down to a whimper . |
| 13 | ‘ Calcraft , and on another occasion Warnham , were invited down to a meeting in some tavern by the riverside where Mistress Rachel was waiting to talk to them . |
| 14 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 15 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 16 | PLAYER : Well , it 's a device , really — it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible ; you understand , we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you 're not tied down to a commitment of any sort , ’ she pointed out in a dry tone . |
| 18 | He had not realized that the boundaries of the black hole according to the two definitions would be the same , and hence so would their areas , provided the black hole had settled down to a state in which it was not changing with time . |
| 19 | I think we 've settled down to a pattern of events now which schools have actually indicated to us is what they want to see . |
| 20 | That 's been on a real high and then gone down to a low to nothing . |
| 21 | The Halflings were cut down to a man , and only a few Knights Panther escaped to warn the Emperor Sigismund of the impending approach of the Orc horde . |
| 22 | However , television is such a major part of people 's lives that simple human interaction has been cut down to a minimum . |
| 23 | The Roe workings had , in the Deep Mine , been taken down to a depth of about 372 ft. from surface though the upper parts were of course , much older . |
| 24 | The mainsheet is taken down to a track just ahead of the wheel pedestal where it is within easy reach of the helmsman and the genoa is trimmed by a pair of three-speed Barient 37–3AST winches which achieve a ratio of 87:1 in third gear . |
| 25 | The heavy material was carted down to a quay on the lake shore , adjacent to Coniston Hall , which had been specially constructed by the company . |
| 26 | I just think it 's going to be kept down to a Christmas card . |
| 27 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 28 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 29 | More and more after these scenes he felt worn out , drained — as if his life were being slowly refined down to a point . |
| 30 | These relationships can be further refined down to an entity or primitive level in the intersection between the two geometric domains . |