Example sentences of "[vb -s] down to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 2 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 3 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 4 | In a direct boiler system , the copper hot water cylinder ( or , in older installations , galvanised hot water tank ) is supplied with water from the cold water storage cistern ; the water then passes down to a heating boiler , back boiler ( behind a fire ) or gas circulator to be heated before returning to the hot water cylinder . |
| 5 | ‘ We intend to continue to increase output and drive our unit costs down to a level at which they are competitive with other sources of electricity generations . ’ |
| 6 | At the back of the house , a square lawn slopes down to a vegetable plot . |
| 7 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 8 | ‘ Uncle Tom 's Cabin ’ begins with banjo and acoustic guitar by singer Jani Lane 's bro ( ‘ courtesy of his mom ’ ! ) but it soon gets down to a twin axe wank . |
| 9 | The problem boils down to a lack of independent dating evidence . |
| 10 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 11 | There are many versions and permutations to choose from in all price ranges and many finishes , so again it boils down to a question of taste , style and pocket , although here , unlike upholstery , expense does not necessarily indicate worth . |
| 12 | It boils down to a personality clash , or that the striker simply is n't the type the manager wants — which is what 's happened in Quinn 's case . |
| 13 | At the most extreme , Pascale ( 1984 : 65 ) suggests that rationality as such is an ethnocentric cul-de-sac , and the standard business-journal exercise of learning-from-the-Japanese for him boils down to a flight from rationality and emulating the inspired but erratic hit-or-miss business behaviour of Soichiro Honda . |
| 14 | Yes , it boils down to a lot more than ensuring that the innocents are clothed and fed . |
| 15 | Yeah it 's lovely there , yeah it 's erm a m just , a metre at both ends and then it shelves down to a metre and a half in the middle and it 's great , it 's warm , it 's , you know , it 's about about body heat actually . |
| 16 | After a few days , the little creature glues its nose on a rock , loses its tail and settles down to a life of sedentary filtration . |
| 17 | Keeping the index record size down is helpful because if the inverted indexes are small they can be held in main storage , and so cut search times down to a minimum . |
| 18 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend therefore have a meeting with his opposite number at the Department of Trade and Industry and endeavour to bring ECGD rates down to a level which would be more favourable to British exporters ? |
| 19 | Sometimes it is necessary to wait as long as two years before the upheaval and upset dies down to a level where you are really ready to cope again . |
| 20 | " Then it comes down to a driver . " |
| 21 | Now loan redemption is a matter for the Government to decide ( at least as to minima ) , and presumably comes down to a judgement about how much the Government thinks that local authorities as a whole can afford to redeem in any year . |
| 22 | On the evidence of what was seen at Goodison Park , neither side has any outstanding strengths or glaring weaknesses and the whole puzzling equation simply comes down to a matter of confidence . |
| 23 | In the end it all comes down to a matter of priorities . |
| 24 | As with all financial decisions Mr Mayor , this one comes down to a matter o a question of priority . |
| 25 | Ultimately , it comes down to a trade-off between symptoms and risks , side-effects and benefits . |
| 26 | Reduced to its minimum , the Latin American idea of a ‘ party ’ comes down to a group of friends , which makes the Leninist concept of a totally committed , exclusive vanguard very difficult to accept or implement . |