Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense . |
| 2 | It all came down to the last throw the lady who came second had three houses on Park Lane and Mayfair but I threw an 11 and sailed right past ! ’ |
| 3 | It all boils down to a simple equation : |
| 4 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 5 | It all boils down to the fact that the problem needs to be simplified . |
| 6 | In the end it all comes down to a matter of priorities . |
| 7 | Bullfighting may be about grace and beauty , a poetic dance between man and beast , but it all comes down to the kill . |
| 8 | Again , it all comes down to the vocal thing . |
| 9 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 10 | It all comes down to the quality of your trash . |
| 11 | You know , again as you said earlier on it all comes down in the end to the head ! |
| 12 | Yeah it does , it all washes down into the garden you see cos the garden 's on a slope and the field , the field slopes straight into the garden , and when we have , when we really have lots and lots of rain , you look out your back windows and there 's about that much lying there , cos it 's running down and it ca n't get past the houses , so it just builds up and floods |
| 13 | So her former connection with Rustenburg , and the presence there of his brother , may have been among the considerations that prompted Herbert Cranko to choose that town when he found it necessary to settle down after a roving life . |