Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] down to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Channel 2 is essentially the same , but there 's no ‘ mid ’ control , no EQ preset button and the tone controls have been honed down to just bass and treble . |
| 2 | So against the narrow focus of the impact of enterprise unions within their own firms we need to consider how far their achievements are filtered down to small firms where formal labour representation is minimal . |
| 3 | There is clearly now an urgent need for a Historic Stations Trust to remove those treasures that remain beyond the reach of the hammers of the destroyers , both official and unofficial , so that at least part of this precious heritage may be handed down to future generations . |
| 4 | They do n't like to be tied down to certain types of delay ; they 'd rather leave that sort of decision until the mix . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Places like Ayr , Largs and Helensburgh which currently have trains until late at night and weekends would be cut down to peak-hour commuter services because they are the only ones that make money . |
| 6 | Band filters that can be tuned down to low frequencies are useful in a host of applications including electronic oscillators . |
| 7 | In a way , it has to be put down to mutual dependence . |
| 8 | Likes and dislikes can not be put down to pure genetic inheritance alone . |
| 9 | They will realise they can not change everything ; the hours spent re-inventing government or shifting paradigms will be put down to youthful inexperience . |
| 10 | No I mean I I do n't think what happened on Piper can be put down to basic safety . |
| 11 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 12 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 13 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 14 | Therefore , the soil has to be removed down to firm ground , and a firm foundation prepared for the side walls . |
| 15 | Nor was the agoge , or rigid training system , a good way for generals , or anybody else , to learn initiative ; great Spartan successes like the first battle of Mantinea ( 41 8 ) are put down to Spartan gnome , ‘ resolution ’ , almost ‘ guts ’ — rather than leadership . |
| 16 | She would not dispute the fact that , by contrast , the Bundesbank is very good indeed at it , nor that since inflation-prone countries , such as France and Italy , joined the Deutschmark-dominated ERM their inflation rates have been forced down to German levels . |
| 17 | That has now been toned down to special envoy , who British officials hope will be on a fact-finding mission rather than being the mediator originally suggested . |
| 18 | Instead , the animal may use up much of the ‘ reserve ’ oxygen ( held principally in the muscles , bound to the pigment myoglobin ) ; and , more significantly , it will derive much of the energy it needs by anaerobic respiration , in which sugar is broken down to lactic acid , without the use of oxygen . |
| 19 | The fact that peasants seized opportunities to enrich themselves is put down to sheer good sense , an unproblematic response to structural changes , while the conviction that the Camisard prophets and prophetesses spoke with the voice of the Holy Spirit is regarded as obviously serving some psychological function . |
| 20 | [ the mark-up ] is kept down to modest size by the existence of many independent firms within the corporate sector ; by the availability , elsewhere in the corporate sector , of reasonably close substitutes for the products of any one firm ; and by the perennial threat of new entry into any field in which the monopoly mark-up is large . |