Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be [verb] down to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the word ‘ romance ’ can not be tied down to any one meaning . |
| 2 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 3 | And it is itself always also paradoxical , for it discloses what can not be scaled down to be contained , proved , measured , demonstrated or explained within the framework of finite human reasoning . |
| 4 | It was , presumably , drafted and engrossed by persons of reasonable educational standard , and the eccentricities ( to modern eyes ) in the orthography can not be put down to illiteracy . |
| 5 | Likes and dislikes can not be put down to pure genetic inheritance alone . |
| 6 | The Queen of Beauty can not be pinned down to one expression , and every female image of beauty that is created is only a single realization of a great range of possibilities . |