Example sentences of "boil down to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 2 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 3 | does it boil down , does it boil down to a lack of security to the fact that ? |
| 4 | The problem boils down to a lack of independent dating evidence . |
| 5 | It boils down to a sharp retraction in the Plains economy . |
| 6 | It all boils down to a simple equation : |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It boils down to a personality clash , or that the striker simply is n't the type the manager wants — which is what 's happened in Quinn 's case . |
| 9 | In fact , as we have seen , it boils down to a moral evaluation of differentiation ( rather than a ‘ scientific ’ finding ) : the differences that distinguish criminals are things that are deemed to have ‘ gone wrong ’ with their biology , psyche or values . |
| 10 | At the most extreme , Pascale ( 1984 : 65 ) suggests that rationality as such is an ethnocentric cul-de-sac , and the standard business-journal exercise of learning-from-the-Japanese for him boils down to a flight from rationality and emulating the inspired but erratic hit-or-miss business behaviour of Soichiro Honda . |
| 11 | Yes , it boils down to a lot more than ensuring that the innocents are clothed and fed . |
| 12 | There are many versions and permutations to choose from in all price ranges and many finishes , so again it boils down to a question of taste , style and pocket , although here , unlike upholstery , expense does not necessarily indicate worth . |
| 13 | Effectively , it boiled down to a continuation in a certain sense of the original situation , except that now the primal father exercised his authority not in the social group , but within the ego — he became a psychological agency instead of being a physical reality . |
| 14 | Charities give varying reasons for entering the Annual Report and Accounts Award , from wanting to know if their report 's overall structure is moving in the right direction , to learning from specific judges ' criticisms , but in the end , they all boil down to a desire to improve the standard of their accounts . |