Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tough rugby player at first put the pain of his acute appendicitis down to the after-effects of his stag night . |
| 2 | After trips to southern Africa and India , he practised briefly as a barrister , married , and settled down to the life of a gentleman , pursuing the two great passions of his life — the study of natural history and of great literature ( French , German , and Spanish , all read in the original languages , as well as English ) . |
| 3 | Right down to the middle of the nineteenth century travellers to Aswan felt they had reached the limits of civilization . |
| 4 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 5 | Sunday morning , up bright and early for Sunday in those days , seven o'clock , out for a walk and then down to the church for choir . |
| 6 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 7 | It really boils down to the question of intent . |
| 8 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |
| 9 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 10 | The Corporation , in any event , envisaged a higher building on the lorry-park site to match the larger building beyond , with the silhouette stepped down to the level of the Georgian Custom House on the east side . |
| 11 | We can not therefore budget down to the level of the individual patient . |
| 12 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 13 | This thin bar is pushed down to the level of the trimmer head , and is claimed to prevent wear on the cord when working near a tree or wall , that would normally abrade the nylon cord . |
| 14 | He , and Gimli and Gollum and Haldir , keep even Lórien tied down to the level of story , in which rivers are tactical obstacles and not symbols for something else . |
| 15 | Primary subcontractors will therefore transfer personnel , equipment and ideas about organization to their own subcontractors who in turn do likewise right down to the level of the single-person firm . |
| 16 | Moreover , it has the advantage of providing data down to the level of the individual enumeration district covering roughly 500 inhabitants , which , even if too small for certain purposes , can be treated as a building block for areas specially defined by the user ( Rhind , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | It would last , they knew , about half an hour — until the single joss stick planted in a bowl of white rice on the altar burned down to the level of the cereal . |
| 18 | There are 1446 main shopping areas covering all well known centres down to the level of small local centres . |
| 19 | Nobody would take her seriously , Luke would laugh it off and take control of the situation , belittle her in front of his friends … and , besides , did she really want Mark 's death brought down to the level of party-stopper ? |
| 20 | A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel . |
| 21 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 22 | First of all , Councillor comments , erm , you know , there seems to be this this er conservative mentality , that is let's drive all our working conditions down to the level of the competition , which means , you know , we would have a a mining industry if we were prepared to put children in , like that do in Columbia . |
| 23 | Do you bring everything down to the level of sexual innuendo ? ’ |
| 24 | Councillor George Morrison , chairman of Lisburn Council 's ad hoc health committee , said : ‘ I believe there is a real danger of the smaller local hospitals being run down to the level of glorified health centres . ’ |
| 25 | A PAPER fan inherited among a job lot on her marriage led Mrs Lynn Lamport on a trail of historical intrigue unearthing tales of three-in-a-bed and of a Lady whose gambling losses brought her down to the level of street sweeper . |
| 26 | Sister Maria Palmer said , ‘ Tomorrow , I 'll have you down to the dispensary for a thorough check , Colonel . ’ |
| 27 | There followed three weeks during which , in Coleridge 's comical retelling of events , Walsh displayed ‘ truly Indian perseverance ’ in tracking the poets on their daily excursions into the hills and down to the beach at Kilve . |
| 28 | There are times when I go down to the beach at The Pit and I 'm the only surfer down there and I 'm so frustrated with it all that I sit on a rock and shout my head off . |
| 29 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
| 30 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |