Example sentences of "come down to [adj] " 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 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 3 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 4 | At that time I had some interest in advertising and marketing , so I decided to get people I knew in some of the big stores to come down to one of our towns . |
| 5 | The IMF cast doubt on budget expectations relating to inflation , forecast by the government to come down to 4.5 per cent but which the IMF believed would be at least 5.5 per cent , and on the ability of the government to cut public spending sufficiently . |
| 6 | And you 've got to come down to eleven for that . |
| 7 | We are also told that wage increases have to come down to German levels , and there has been some movement in that direction . |
| 8 | ‘ Would you like to come down to Carinish Court for a few days ? ’ |
| 9 | Bill could n't beli well they came down to seventeen pound , I thought well that 's not much |
| 10 | However , in spite of stringent credit referencing precautions , loans in arrears between six and twelve months rose from 24,000 in 1982 to 83,000 in 1988 according to the Building Societies Association statistics , but came down to 58,000 in 1989 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It all came down to bloody money . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The second prevalence survey revealed a grand total of 1,372 cases of problem drug use known to the eight indicator agencies , which , after duplicates were eliminated , came down to 1,076 unique individual problem drug users ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 15 | The final number came down to seven , three girls and four boys . |
| 16 | In essence , it came down to this : that he felt meaningless , empty , almost invisible unless one or more of her sex were doting on him . |
| 17 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 18 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It came down to three grotty , scrappy bits of land that no-one since Adolf Hitler had shown any interest in … |
| 21 | Wages edged up to an average of £19.58 , and the bank rate came down to 6 per cent , but mortgages went up from 6 to 6&1/4% . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even coming down to seventeen thousand you can control the sound . |
| 25 | There a new realism and prices are coming down to sensible levels . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So when does the value come down to zero , well it comes down to zero when the bit we 're taking away is equal to that . |
| 28 | Well if we put the money into sets , lots of ten and the people into lots of ten we could cancel those tens out and it would just come down to five over fifteen . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |