Example sentences of "settles down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There will be other forms of contingency strategy , where home care spending — perhaps up to one-third of the overall allocation — is deliberately held back until the residential and nursing home spend settles down into a recognisable pattern .
2 When a black hole is created by gravitational collapse , it rapidly settles down to a stationary state that is characterized by only three parameters : the mass , the angular momentum , and the electric charge .
3 ( It is rather like dropping a cork into water : at first it bobs up and down a great deal , but as the ripples carry away its energy , it eventually settles down to a stationary state . )
4 The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun , eventually collides with it , and settles down to a stationary state .
5 With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence .
6 ONCE Czechoslovakia settles down from the current euphoria of people 's power , its new leadership will have to take some hard decisions on how to overcome its economic difficulties .
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