Example sentences of "come down [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 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 | ‘ Would you like to come down to Carinish Court for a few days ? ’ |
| 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 | It all came down to bloody money . |
| 7 | ‘ She came down to Aberconwy School where we all were and said she wanted all the mothers and babies to stay with her , ’ said Tracey Parker . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few . |
| 11 | ‘ Then , ’ continued the barmaid , as Cornelius sniffed on appreciatively , ‘ this meteor came down in old Jack Spar 's field , least as how they thought it were a meteor . |
| 12 | There a new realism and prices are coming down to sensible levels . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | He had n't reckoned on one of the Liaison team coming down from Central London just to shake his hand , talk baseball results , and drive him back . |
| 18 | From this depression , the descent is continued down the Mallerstang flank , soon linking with Ais Gill coming down from Wild Boar Fell . |
| 19 | By meticulous surveying and mapping over many years , exploration of the cave beyond its earliest known extremities — to connect with underground passages coming down from Gaping Gill a mile away — had been charted to within a short distance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He ca n't come down at Kisangani airport because Gog is there with a lot of his guards . |
| 22 | Did it come down in remote forest land where it still lay , gradually decaying ? |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
| 24 | In the end environmental issues come down to political decisions on what people want . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |
| 27 | Or when I come down with psychosomatic diseases so that my wife babies me and Huxley and Hooker fight all my battles . |
| 28 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 29 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 30 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |