Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHAMPIONS and section one league leaders Waringstown are in danger of going down to their first defeat of the season . |
| 2 | BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday . |
| 3 | The exhibition is the work of Charlotte Gere , who has written its exhaustive catalogue , investigating the rooms ' contents down to their present whereabouts and the attribution of paintings . |
| 4 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 5 | Price differentials within the European Community have driven our visible earnings down to their lowest figure since 1987 . |
| 6 | ‘ We think much of England 's success is down to their strong front-row so , yes , we were pleased that Probyn was n't playing . |
| 7 | They were ordinary chaps who deliberately sold themselves short right down to their weedy name , an idea that still attaches itself to anything on the label . |
| 8 | The walls the Romans built remained the basic structure of the city walls down to their final destruction in the late eighteenth century , save at two significant corners . |
| 9 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 10 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 11 | No wonder they were upset , relying on Flaxperson for their next social security Giro when down to their last lentil . |
| 12 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 13 | Athelstan dallied with the thought of tying each of the people in this house down to their exact movements during the night Sir Thomas died , as well as the following one when Vechey disappeared , but realised the futility of it . |
| 14 | Green Believers are now pressing the priests of rich-world industry to scan supply chains right down to their poor-world beginnings . |
| 15 | The recommencement of any trading would be an open invitation to poachers and smugglers throughout the leopard 's range to get down to their illicit business . |
| 16 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 17 | ‘ Stereo ’ is another ; it was some time before the word had settled down to its present meaning , and American Columbia are not to be castigated for marking their 1953 seven-inch LPs with the word ( 40 ) . |
| 18 | Strip the argument for boxing down to its bare elements and you find Leonard producing exactly the fight required . |
| 19 | There are a variety of methods of attachment but to ensure a tight connection ( which is essential ) the inhaul rope should be tied when the boom is parallel to the mast so that when swung down to its normal position it tightens the rope . |
| 20 | THE great sales-price wars which sent inflation down to its lowest level in a quarter of a century during January came to an end in February . |
| 21 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |
| 22 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 23 | During the refurbishment period , the kiln was stripped down to its basic frame , shot-blasted and painted . |
| 24 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 25 | The £75 unit fits in the back of a PC and runs the fan down to its ideal operating speed for the ambient temperature . |
| 26 | The truck was bare down to its wooden boards . |
| 27 | After the manor house and church had been cleaned and decorated , the family community settled down to its main object , the pursuit of sanctity through a steady rhythmic routine of prayer . |
| 28 | That way , we can strip the thing down to its last nut and bolt . |
| 29 | The Board of Trade , a free-trading department down to its last paper-clip , had long opposed this restrictive practice as a conspiracy against the consumer and as a malign , artificial inflator of prices . |
| 30 | His campaign now seems to be down to its last card — to brand Mr Da Silva as a dangerous radical who is bent on introducing Stalinist communism into Brazil . |