Example sentences of "[vb -s] down to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister and every member of the government wants to hold fare increases down to reasonable levels and I 'm pleased that er at six percent average , that 's a reasonable contribution by the travelling passenger on British Rail and London Transport to the enormous investment sums that are required . |
| 2 | ‘ Meanwhile , the other watcher races down to Far Field and tells me . |
| 3 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 4 | Apparently the two suppliers are now agreed ( or have at last been convinced by third parties ) that a unified user environment for their respective Unix implementations , combining shared APIs and front-end elements — from desktop objects down to high-level system administration functions — makes sense . |
| 5 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It sounds as though you really do believe that everything comes down to monetary profit and loss . ’ |
| 7 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 8 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 9 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 10 | Yeah , yeah it all comes down to personal taste |
| 11 | In the end it comes down to personal prejudice . |
| 12 | The wh the whole point is Steve , when it comes down to basic facts , it should have had a proper sealed unit chiller on it when it was new . |
| 13 | Paul Oldfield and Simon Reynolds reckon it all comes down to sexual politics . |
| 14 | That comes down to bad maintenance |