Example sentences of "come down to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unfortunately , in all the confusion of evidence , it seems to have come down to one brother 's word against the other . ’ |
| 2 | We are also told that wage increases have to come down to German levels , and there has been some movement in that direction . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you like to come down to Carinish Court for a few days ? ’ |
| 4 | Bill could n't beli well they came down to seventeen pound , I thought well that 's not much |
| 5 | The first game was good , but it came down to one player , Garrison , who was desperate to win , and one player , Graff , who just kind of did n't want to lose . |
| 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 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There a new realism and prices are coming down to sensible levels . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The idea was that , if the government simply ‘ announced ’ that the rate of inflation in the coming year would be such and such , and reduced the rate of interest in line with that forecast , public expectations would adjust accordingly , and the rate of inflation would come down to that level . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But there there was no facilities for running on you see and when when we had to ride that one , the chair would come down to this inset ninety yards you see ? |
| 18 | In the end environmental issues come down to political decisions on what people want . |
| 19 | Then they come down to that price . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not everything comes down to monetary profit and loss , you know . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It sounds as though you really do believe that everything comes down to monetary profit and loss . ’ |
| 24 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 25 | ‘ At the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions about individual jobs , ’ says Fairweather . |
| 26 | The PLAYER is in the downstage corner still ROS comes down to that exit . |
| 27 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 28 | Usually it all comes down to one solution — more money — and when that has been arranged , the battle with the builders is re-arranged to contain the damage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |