Example sentences of "[vb -s] down to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The energy spectrum of atmospheric turbulence persists down to the smallest scales , and to trap the maximum amount of energy the valves must be as small and numerous as possible , The payload of Daedalus 's new craft will be conventionally suspended from cords around its rim . |
| 2 | The senior manager may be unable to cope with his or her own work either and so much of the overflow simply drifts down to the next level . |
| 3 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 4 | There are arguments in favour of analysing costs down to the individual patient . |
| 5 | A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area . |
| 6 | From near Alport Low , Hern Clough leads down to the tranquil hollow of Grains in the Water , a magical spot in a wide bowl of surrounding hills . |
| 7 | The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 8 | So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate . |
| 9 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 10 | Because the heart is the seat of all our emotions , affections and willpower , this means that the impact of being blessed by God eventually reaches down to the very core of our persons . |
| 11 | The slope of a hill stretches down to the playing fields . |
| 12 | The biggest influence on this behaviour has probably been the large increase in wealth , which in turn boils down to the sharp rise in house prices . |
| 13 | Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline . |
| 14 | Mineralisation in northern Snowdonia occurs mainly as small veins near the contact of the Ordovician Lower Rhyolitic Tuff Formation and the overlying basic Bedded Pyroclastic Formation but extends down to the underlying sediments . |
| 15 | Essentially it comes down to the age-old question which has tormented the rich as much as the fate of their souls : how do you have your cake and eat it ? |
| 16 | A very strange way of writing it again but basically it comes down to the following . |
| 17 | But in the end , at that last hour , it comes down to the 15 and everything we do is focused down on that last hour . ’ |
| 18 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 19 | Comes down to the same thing in the end . |
| 20 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 21 | That comes down to the same problem , that actually |
| 22 | Again , it all comes down to the vocal thing . |