Example sentences of "come down [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 2 | What 's happened is that policy makers 've shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs they 're protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er , to G A T T do n't come under erm G A T T regulations , what those tariffs do nevertheless , tariffs have , have come down in manufactured goods right , erm , since the second world war when G A T T was er , was established . |
| 3 | We are also told that wage increases have to come down to German levels , and there has been some movement in that direction . |
| 4 | The boat came down between two waves , and Grace quickly got her oars out . |
| 5 | Now that we could relax a bit , we began to realise just how tired we all were and many girls came down with minor ailments , such as skin rashes and tonsilitis . |
| 6 | None of the questions highlighted above by Bukharin can be abstracted from state policies in a Soviet type economy , even that of the mid-1920s , therefore once one had made a few generalisations about the need to transfer surplus from the private sector to the state sector of the economy , all else came down to precise policies which are not self-regulating but consciously decided upon . |
| 7 | He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves . |
| 8 | These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few . |
| 9 | Above all , we must move junior doctors on to a shift system so that they do not work more than 60 hours , coming down to 56 hours in the most intensive posts . |
| 10 | There a new realism and prices are coming down to sensible levels . |
| 11 | No , what I 'm saying is erm that having looked at each individual case that I 've sometimes felt frustrated about , I 've been glad that they are n't larger for the sake of coming down to human rights . |
| 12 | Any use of nuclear weapons which resulted in significant fall-out coming down in neutral countries , or which in other ways violated neutral territory , would clearly fall foul of this provision . |
| 13 | The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop . |
| 14 | ‘ The main danger is ice , which coming down in large floes at the breaking up of a frost , is apt to accumulate at the pillars and exert enormous pressure thereon , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Waiting times are coming down in most places and staff report improved management and job satisfaction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So I do think that the , I do n't think it actually does necessarily come down to glossy brochures , but I think it is a management attitude erm , in terms of mark developing a very much more pro-active marketing approach to going out and competing aggressively in the market place for the contracts . |
| 19 | One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve . |
| 20 | The price of organic food can only come down with bigger subsidies to organic farmers . |
| 21 | In the end environmental issues come down to political decisions on what people want . |
| 22 | The problems are ones of ethics , which in turn come down to public attitudes to what life would be like with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 23 | Or when I come down with psychosomatic diseases so that my wife babies me and Huxley and Hooker fight all my battles . |
| 24 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 25 | To sum up , when buying clubs it comes down to two things — that you must seek the judgement of a qualified professional golfer you trust , and the clubs have to feel right and look right for you . |
| 26 | They wanted to keep them happy , they let them carry on with their religion , it did n't interest them but when it comes down to serious things like killing erm political agitators , the Romans wanted to deal with that themselves . |
| 27 | The wh the whole point is Steve , when it comes down to basic facts , it should have had a proper sealed unit chiller on it when it was new . |