Example sentences of "down to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orders came from Command right down to squadron level ; the preparations started about mid-morning as soon as this vast sheet of paper from the teleprinter indicating every facet of the job ahead arrived . |
| 2 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 3 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 4 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 5 | Quite a few of us from used to go down to cricket match . |
| 6 | Seemed to be going down to south coast of the river |
| 7 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 8 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 9 | After twenty minutes or so , turn the oven down to gas mark 4 , 180°C/325°F and roast for a further twenty minutes per pound . |
| 10 | Austria has 10 resorts with skiing down to valley level . |
| 11 | When it returns to surface daylight , it flows quietly down to valley level at Ribblehead ; here it adopts the name of River Ribble and turns south on its long journey to Preston and the Irish Sea . |
| 12 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 13 | With dye terminators , 96 templates can be sequenced in a single microtitre dish and excess dye terminators are removed 24 samples at a time by gravity chromatography using a perspex block of microcolumns scaled down to microtitre format ( 12 ) . |
| 14 | The ‘ political officer ’ ( zampolit ) , posted down to company level , is the linchpin of political control , charged with overseeing military-political training and the enforcement of Party policy . |
| 15 | After that we 're down to emergency lighting , just the aisle lights and not much else for about four hours , then we 're in the dark . ’ |
| 16 | One of the early theories about the causes of hyperkinetic syndrome put it down to brain damage , but research has failed to find any evidence of this . |
| 17 | " I believe in the instinctive wisdom of our well-tried democracy , " declared Churchill in 1945 — shortly before going down to election defeat . |
| 18 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 19 | I am beckoned , ‘ You must take this down to desk number twenty-three . |
| 20 | After delivering his message of support to the organic movement at Cirencester , he held a seminar at Kensington Palace to air the issues , and he and John Higgs subsequently went down to Elm Farm to investigate the possibilities of employing organic methods on the home farm . |
| 21 | I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination . |
| 22 | An experienced headhunter could narrow the field down to short-list stage much more quickly and cost-effectively , Tagg argued . |
| 23 | Cleaned fittings , after disinfection , are re-assembled and the whole is left to air dry for a short period before the empty cabinet is brought down to working temperature and re-filled . |
| 24 | That means that more and more elderly people are being forced down to income support or poverty line levels . |
| 25 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 26 | With instrument panel shattered and the cockpit full of bullet holes , he was forced down to sea level where the engine stopped and the aircraft started to burn on its left side . |
| 27 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |
| 28 | In the south-eastern corner between the Hadhlamaut and the Persian Gulf , lies Rub' al Khali , the Empty Quarter , which consists essentially of a low plateau sloping northwards from about 300 m ( 1000 ft ) down to sea level and covered to a considerable extent with sand dunes . |
| 29 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
| 30 | McKenzie was out of ammunition , but followed an enemy aircraft down to sea level , stuck up a wing and chopped off its tail — he was lucky to be able to regain control of his own aircraft , ’ Mr Lynch said . |