Example sentences of "[adv prt] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you 're going down to are n't you on Wednesday ? |
| 2 | Crash-cutting the best of the sight gags to a bass-heavy mix of Tone Loc 's ‘ Wild Thing ’ , editing the pedestrian plot down to is essential equation ( relaxed grown-up sorts out uptight kid note the difference to the standard Hughes formula : relaxed kids sort out uptight grown-up ) , it 's three minutes of pure cinematic bliss . |
| 3 | The presentational aspect involves all kinds of different considerations which I shall come to presently , but what they boil down to is this : what can you do to make it easier for the communicator to communicate and the audience to receive the required message — with minimum distraction ? |
| 4 | Elsewhere he has said , ‘ all that the concept of subsidiarity boils down to is an expression of the national interest of member states . |
| 5 | What it comes down to is that most people , myself included , are just not up to murder . |
| 6 | What it comes down to is that I ca n't handle happiness . |
| 7 | A musician can fool himself and say , ‘ Yeah , I 'm doing great because I 'm getting all these write-ups and my career seems to be looking good , ’ but what it boils down to is what you 're actually doing — whether or not you 're breaking any new ground in music . |
| 8 | What this all boils down to is that , if you make a turn to the left while flying forwards at high speed with clockwise blade rotation , you will probably need to apply full left tail rotor . |
| 9 | What the detail in Appendix I boils down to is that , in general , seeing how total costs or APRs compare does not make most people change their minds . |
| 10 | In fact , what it boils down to is the most efficient system for regulating your body 's own little micro-climate , without burdening your rucksack with all manner of garments designed for one specific set of conditions — a waterproof duvet jacket for example . |
| 11 | Anyway , I went into it to basically find who in the fuck I was , and what it comes down to is having a wank every five minutes of every day . |
| 12 | Look — what it comes down to is , Jake and Fand both want this Undry thing . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , ’ Agnes said resignedly , ‘ so what it boils down to is that , despite your assurances to the White House Protective Detail , you 're sneaking off to do a little sleuthing on your own ? ’ |
| 14 | Stripped of the elaborate language of general equilibrium theory , what this criticism usually boils down to is a very simple question : if there is general excess supply in the labour market , what forces prevent the real wage rate from being adjusted downwards ? |
| 15 | It 's , what it comes down to is an understanding . |
| 16 | What it comes down to is do we , or do we not approve of killing animals for fun do we approve of allowing a pack of dogs to hunt an animal to its death . |
| 17 | What it came down to was this : if I was going to do anything I was going to have to take on another part-time catering or cleaning job . |
| 18 | The only thing I could put it down to was his father was a big Mason and he was Freemason on the Bench . |
| 19 | Because what all the fine talk came down to was hard cash . |
| 20 | The first thing that Nigel got down to was , as I expected , fixing up his hi-fi , and on our very first evening that vast area reverberated with the great big beautiful noise of ‘ Also sprach Zarathustra ’ , so I felt truly at home . |
| 21 | Nor was it of much use to youth workers , as what it boiled down to was a couple of blocking techniques , a punch and a bite : a self-appointed , self-defence expert showing off . |
| 22 | What it came down to was that Erlich had one last evening as an independent , and that from first light , from waffles and coffee time , he 'd be part of their team and doing their bidding . |
| 23 | What it essentially boiled down to was for a suitable building to be found in Moscow , while Costakis would provide the resources and materials necessary for the building 's restoration . |
| 24 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 25 | ‘ What it really boiled down to was immense immaturity in a grown man . |
| 26 | What it really came down to was self-respect . |
| 27 | What it boiled down to was a question of priorities . |
| 28 | When manager Victor Contini judges that the moment is right , the haunch is brought down to be skinned , boned , cured and thinly sliced like Parma ham . |
| 29 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 30 | The letter was marked down to be followed up ; the death sentence was the likely result . |