Example sentences of "comes [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Princely dignity comes naturally to a Venetian , ’ he said drily , removing his mask . |
| 2 | " Then it comes down to a driver . " |
| 3 | Now loan redemption is a matter for the Government to decide ( at least as to minima ) , and presumably comes down to a judgement about how much the Government thinks that local authorities as a whole can afford to redeem in any year . |
| 4 | On the evidence of what was seen at Goodison Park , neither side has any outstanding strengths or glaring weaknesses and the whole puzzling equation simply comes down to a matter of confidence . |
| 5 | In the end it all comes down to a matter of priorities . |
| 6 | As with all financial decisions Mr Mayor , this one comes down to a matter o a question of priority . |
| 7 | Ultimately , it comes down to a trade-off between symptoms and risks , side-effects and benefits . |
| 8 | Reduced to its minimum , the Latin American idea of a ‘ party ’ comes down to a group of friends , which makes the Leninist concept of a totally committed , exclusive vanguard very difficult to accept or implement . |
| 9 | Needing no alibis , however , though it comes close to an exploitation concept , is the hard-driving Australian movie Shame ( Vestron ) , with a dynamic central performance by Deborra-Lee Furness as the city woman caught up in Outback violence . |
| 10 | In these occasional pieces , he is revealed as a psychological critic whose apparent ability to immerse himself in another poet 's personality comes close to an act of clairvoyance . |
| 11 | If a salmon comes back to a river after a year , it is known as a grilse , and — weighing anything from one to four kilograms — is ready for the pot or skillet or foil jacket . |
| 12 | So you often see on nature programmes , for example , when a bird comes back to a nest with several chicks in , you see the parental bird kind of poking its , its beak in the in the gaping beaks of all the chicks . |
| 13 | RIGHT Mandarin comes back to a hero 's welcome . |
| 14 | This is most noticeably the case when we examine education ( chapter 12 ) , and it is probably this situation which comes closest to a monitor situation . |
| 15 | As France comes virtually to a halt , the situation might look revolutionary . |