Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , it may come down to who makes the better speech at the convention — and who the delegates believe can beat the Liberals in the election , probably in September . |
| 2 | In such cases it may come down to allocating liability beween the parents and the occupier . |
| 3 | If you do end it should go down to the end . |
| 4 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |
| 5 | But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days . |
| 6 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 7 | Ultimately it must come down to taking a view of what effect it has had on the standard of living of her people . |
| 8 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 9 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 10 | If it sticks with G then it might go down to G four or G five . |
| 11 | It might bring down on me the wrath of Motherdear . ’ |
| 12 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 13 | It 'll go down as one of the famous unsolved crimes of history . ’ |
| 14 | Seventeen and four it is , you owe me one and threepence halfpenny , and it 'll go down in the book . |
| 15 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 16 | New hardware technologies addressing emerging markets for personal and consumer-oriented digital image processing solutions will be spawned by SGI 's new digital sight and sound division which has taken the entry-level Indigo model and says it 'll work down from there . |
| 17 | It 'll fall down round our ears one of these days , if we do n't watch out ! |
| 18 | Any intelligent word processor you could type M and it would whiz down to the March . |
| 19 | Until recently , it was considered safe and environmentally acceptable to dump household waste in the ground where , left to decay , it would break down into harmless by-products and cause no problems . |
| 20 | Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer . |
| 21 | On the medical records , it would go down under its mother 's name , but then records go down under another name . |
| 22 | Its diet consists of herring , mackerel , pilchard , rats-tails and argentines , also squid , and , as it will go down to 610 metres ( 334 fathoms ) deepwater species . |
| 23 | No , Well , it will go down to twenty-one . |
| 24 | it will go down in the Oxford Dictionary or something . |
| 25 | How do you stop it getting into the environment , because if you hose it down it will wash down into the drains wo n't it ? |
| 26 | By making money follow the pupil , LMS will encourage good schools and penalise bad ones ; and by delegating budgets to individual heads , it will cut down on time-wasting bureaucracy . |
| 27 | It will cut down on dom a number of domestic flights and of short haul flights to and from our European competitors . |
| 28 | He says it will spiral down to 1,800 by next year . |
| 29 | Eventually , it will get down to zero mass and will disappear completely . |
| 30 | Like a sea-anemone it will close down to a blob if touched , and it feeds on small organisms which brush past its tentacles , by shooting out special poisonous threads to paralyse its victim , which can then be collected by the tentacles and drawn into the hydra 's mouth . |