Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They regretted TM 's ‘ eastern mystical ’ connotations but pointed out that it was ‘ a very simple , natural technique which allows mental activity to settle down to a state of increased inner quietness , producing deep mental and physical rest ’ . |
| 2 | The inclusion of sculptural elements into a given context makes one more conscious of time , not by slowing it down to a state of meditation , but rather by particularising time through the experience of the work in context . |
| 3 | After a time the circuit should settle down to a state in which the usual combinations of inputs to the cell are relatively ineffective , while any unusual combination can still set off a strong response . |
| 4 | He had not realized that the boundaries of the black hole according to the two definitions would be the same , and hence so would their areas , provided the black hole had settled down to a state in which it was not changing with time . |
| 5 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 6 | They are down to a pair of Bananaramas after the departure of Jacqui O'Sullivan . |
| 7 | There were thirty pairs of animals in the body of the ark , ranging from a lion and a lioness almost as big as Noah himself , down to a pair of white mice no bigger than Melanie 's little finger-nail . |
| 8 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 9 | Cleared with the security guards at the desk he went into the lift that would take him down to a depth below the level of the Thames . |
| 10 | Perhaps we should fence off all the roads , down to a depth of several feet and a height of many yards . |
| 11 | Shallow seas in the tropics may be almost hot — up to 30°C ; and the surface layers of the oceans , in the tropics , may be at about 17°C , down to a depth of around 400 m . |
| 12 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 13 | The Roe workings had , in the Deep Mine , been taken down to a depth of about 372 ft. from surface though the upper parts were of course , much older . |
| 14 | Temperatures were measured down to a depth of 5 kilometres , where seasonal fluctuations have no effect . |
| 15 | In the end , we went down to a chum in the country . ’ |
| 16 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 17 | Golden Girl 's lead was down to a quarter of a mile . |
| 18 | They settled down to a discussion of their problems , and the work they had in front of them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Knowing that not many Southwark families sat down to a breakfast like that , the Beavises blessed their luck and addressed the world with beaming gratitude . |
| 21 | Keep left along the wall and down to a gully with Caperby below . |
| 22 | ‘ A wild and historic , mountainous island where herb-scented woods tumble down to a shoreline of vast white sandy beaches — beautifully unspoilt and crowd free . ’ |
| 23 | The heavy material was carted down to a quay on the lake shore , adjacent to Coniston Hall , which had been specially constructed by the company . |
| 24 | Given this , the production index could be revised down to a fall of 1 per cent . |
| 25 | The problem boils down to a lack of independent dating evidence . |
| 26 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 27 | does it boil down , does it boil down to a lack of security to the fact that ? |
| 28 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 29 | Then , he put the problems down to a lack of top speed compared to other machines in the series . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |