Example sentences of "brought down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When manager Victor Contini judges that the moment is right , the haunch is brought down to be skinned , boned , cured and thinly sliced like Parma ham . |
| 2 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 3 | Inflation was brought down to below 5 per cent , the balance of payments remained healthy and productivity improved rapidly . |
| 4 | GOD 'S PROMISES ON THE BRINK and a hero brought down to earth with a bump |
| 5 | After Peniel , when for a night Jacob also , so unheroic hitherto , played a hero 's part , we are given more subtle comedy and another hero brought down to earth . |
| 6 | ENGLAND men failed to turn their silver into gold in the European Championships in Stuttgart last night as they were brought down to earth 4–1 by Sweden in the final of the men 's team event . |
| 7 | Some organisations , such as the World Health Organisation , want it brought down to 22 weeks . |
| 8 | Fuchs believes the time could be brought down to nanoseconds . |
| 9 | Cleaned fittings , after disinfection , are re-assembled and the whole is left to air dry for a short period before the empty cabinet is brought down to working temperature and re-filled . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 12 | Other , more local , axes in , for example , Northumberland , have also been suggested , and can be brought down to a very local level . |
| 13 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 14 | Some experienced foilers hold onto the spar end of a Flexifoil , shaking it while nearly vertical then when air-filled , it is brought down to the horizontal for the assisted launch . |
| 15 | And all of them were astonished that the most glamorous member of the Royal Family could be so suddenly and publicly brought down to earth . |
| 16 | Newcastle were brought down to earth when Brendan O'Connell earned Barnsley a 1-0 victory . |
| 17 | Beattie was taken back to the cell and shortly afterwards brought down to the main police office where the other men who had been arrested were being assembled . |
| 18 | He watched her go alone , the trappings she had brought down to the beach left abandoned . |
| 19 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 20 | Brought down to earth with a bang , I sheepishly confessed , not yet aware that I had found my spiritual home . |
| 21 | Then the big face was brought down to hers and the words came between small misshapen teeth : ‘ Do we understand each other now ? |
| 22 | Irrespective of size , status or skills everyone was brought down to earth with a splash — the difference was that as Saturday 's play unfolded the seeded sides invariably proved to be the more adept in the art of ‘ aquaplaning ’ . |
| 23 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 24 | My initial perceptions of a college of further education might have begun on a lofty plane , but I was soon brought down to earth with a bump . |
| 25 | Brought down to prose by Falstaff for a few lines of word-play , Hal leaves him with another line of verse , marking the difference of ethos between them . |
| 26 | Similarly teams of medical advisers were brought down to William Osborne to inspect and comment on the level and location of medical equipment so that as the boat was built the right equipment was installed in the right place . |
| 27 | Something had to be done to tame this circuit , and it was … the " Ring " was brought down to size . |
| 28 | In the early period of the application of the formula , Oxford RHA was rapidly brought down to RAWP target levels and Merseyside RHA brought up . |
| 29 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 30 | Timber was carted up , a tough job for any horse , and ore brought down to the Paddy End Mill in the same manner . |