Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | put it down to just a useful . |
| 2 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 3 | It would be much more sensible if , as a staff writer in Ekonomska politika ( 15 February 1988 ) has suggested , the minimum point for assessing personal income tax were to be brought down to approximately the average income of each republic or province , and the scale of progressivity were to be less steep . |
| 4 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 5 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 6 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 7 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
| 8 | That was the position taken by pretty nearly all men of intelligence from the earliest historical times down to about a hundred bears ago . |
| 9 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 10 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 11 | In the final stages , foxes can lose weight down to about a third . |
| 12 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
| 13 | In the case of an Englishman they 'll want to take their beer , steak and chips , everything over to simply a hot climate and they live in their bubble . |
| 14 | Although set up fairly soon after the coordinating committee , the Inservice Panel got off to rather a slow start , with its early meetings being characterised by fairly unstructured discussion of how it might function and what it might aim to achieve . |
| 15 | They do not stand up to even the briefest of scrutinies . |
| 16 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 17 | The account comes with a £100 cheque guarantee card , standing orders , direct debits and free personal accident insurance worth up to twice the outstanding balance on the account . |
| 18 | In fact , they had even greater discretion , because they were allowed to charge from nothing up to twice the standard community charge . |
| 19 | The Company is empowered under its articles of Association to borrow up to twice the aggregate amount of the share capital and reserves of the Company and its subsidiaries as indicated by the latest audited accounts , subject to certain adjustments . |
| 20 | In this way , the nominal stress in a wooden beam before actual collapse occurs may be up to twice the true compressive stress . |
| 21 | Up to virtually the last minute I 'd assumed that we , or at least yours truly , were going on the plane as well . |
| 22 | Up to now the Japanese have not been leaders in disc design . |
| 23 | By 1660 , the mill had been built up to quite a substantial and sophisticated concern , now housing three pairs of fulling stocks , dye houses and shearing and warping rooms . |
| 24 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |
| 25 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |
| 26 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 27 | Families , which essentially means women , already provide massive , unpaid , largely unrecognized care and it is vital that policies of decentralization and community care do not too readily shift an even greater burden on to both the elderly themselves and their caring relatives . |
| 28 | No this is , cos Marion and Matthew they like Indians and they go both me ma , start again , they like Indian meals and they 've been round to quite a few and they said this is the best one they 've been to . |