Example sentences of "[is] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Check out Ian Marshalls rating … he s down as a central defender .
2 The McBrides Fashions series is down to a two-horse points .
3 Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne .
4 This is down to a local council 's Engineers Department who provide the street names for new developments .
5 Saturday night socialising is down to the bare minimum since the children arrived .
6 Billy Corgan is down with the current spate of female bands ; he does n't begrudge them success and thinks groups like Babes in Toyland deserve their kudos .
7 It is down on the 22.6 per cent the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured in the 1987 election .
8 The hole you dig should be round , not square , since there is much less effort expended in digging a round hole — and if the digging is down through a grassed surface the size of the hole can be anticipated and one complete turf taken out to be replaced later .
9 The FAO 's new estimate of 15.4 million hectares a year is down from the 16.9 million hectare estimate presented at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , but well above the 11.4 million hectare estimate of 1980 .
10 but that 's down to the professional expertise of dis departments .
11 In part it 's down to the sheer dullness of the directing .
12 So in the words of the rap , it 's down to the real nitty gritty to keep the flames of the scouting movement burning bright .
13 He 's down to the fucking , it 's taken him more than three hours !
14 In part this is the result of photosynthesis which is pumping oxygen into solution but again primarily it 's down to the physical saturation due to breaking waves and air bubbles being mixed in to the system .
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