Example sentences of "[vb -s] down to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In year two this actually drops down to twelve point six percent and in year three down to nine five percent .
2 However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side .
3 antarcticus moulting occurs down to lower temperatures than in temperate stocks ( Burn , 1981 ) .
4 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 .
5 Fitter Chris Colligan gets down to some steam cleaning
6 The leader , who is the tow aircraft for this sequence , dives down to 5000 ft .
7 ‘ Meanwhile , the other watcher races down to Far Field and tells me .
8 Unless it was somebody we have already used , and that really boils down to one person in York , and she 's shown no signs of applying , so .
9 He continued : " This experience boils down to one point : we must integrate the fundamental principles of Marxism with the concrete realities of the Chinese revolution and national development and keep to our own road . "
10 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 .
11 Setting aside the polemical aspects of his argument , Honderich 's thesis boils down to three points .
12 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 .
13 The seventy-one-year-old steel cantilever span narrows down to two lanes as it crosses a channel that connects the Gulf to the Mississippi .
14 Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’
15 ‘ It sounds as though you really do believe that everything comes down to monetary profit and loss . ’
16 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 .
17 ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather .
18 The PLAYER is in the downstage corner still ROS comes down to that exit .
19 It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong .
20 Usually it all comes down to one solution — more money — and when that has been arranged , the battle with the builders is re-arranged to contain the damage .
21 To sum up , when buying clubs it comes down to two things — that you must seek the judgement of a qualified professional golfer you trust , and the clubs have to feel right and look right for you .
22 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 .
23 Yeah , yeah it all comes down to personal taste
24 In the end it comes down to personal prejudice .
25 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 .
26 Paul Oldfield and Simon Reynolds reckon it all comes down to sexual politics .
27 That comes down to bad maintenance
28 runs down to these versions underneath .
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