Example sentences of "[is] down [prep] a [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 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 .
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