Example sentences of "come down [prep] [adj] " 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 ‘ Well , they have to hide the Cruise missiles somewhere , ’ I said , zipping up my fleece-lined leather jacket against the rain which had started coming down in ominous big spits .
15 By then , the rain had really started coming down in bucketsful .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 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 .
20 From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle .
21 From this depression , the descent is continued down the Mallerstang flank , soon linking with Ais Gill coming down from Wild Boar Fell .
22 Emerge into next field , where go forward and slightly left , passing to right of projecting corner of hedge coming down from left to take stile at corner of field into allotments .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 He ca n't come down at Kisangani airport because Gog is there with a lot of his guards .
26 Did it come down in remote forest land where it still lay , gradually decaying ?
27 ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’
28 and you think well to hell with it , they should be , come down on hard .
29 In the end environmental issues come down to political decisions on what people want .
30 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 .
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