Example sentences of "it [adj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |
| 2 | Had it all come down to this ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | It all came down to bloody money . |
| 6 | Of course it all boils down to image . |
| 7 | It all boils down to a simple equation : |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | I suppose it all boils down to individuality — of both the volunteer and the railway . |
| 10 | It all boils down to the fact that the problem needs to be simplified . |
| 11 | It all boils down to interfaces , and I think that it is one of the more difficult areas of chemistry to work in and there 's a lot of room for advancement there . |
| 12 | And he came in and sat down and put his elbows on the edge of his tray and it all went whack over his blazer and it all slid down onto his trousers . |
| 13 | I wonder what his parents thought of him , but does n't it all boil down to what life at home has been like . |
| 14 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |
| 15 | Paul Oldfield and Simon Reynolds reckon it all comes down to sexual politics . |
| 16 | ‘ It all comes down to how you deliver it . |
| 17 | Bullfighting may be about grace and beauty , a poetic dance between man and beast , but it all comes down to the kill . |
| 18 | It all comes down to him really , but I guess you knew that already . ’ |
| 19 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 20 | In the end it all comes down to a matter of priorities . |
| 21 | Again , it all comes down to the vocal thing . |
| 22 | ‘ It all comes down to ‘ fair play ’ or the lack of it . |
| 23 | Usually it all comes down to one solution — more money — and when that has been arranged , the battle with the builders is re-arranged to contain the damage . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Again , it all comes down to money . |
| 26 | It all comes down to the quality of your trash . |
| 27 | ‘ In the end , ’ Donna used to say , ‘ that 's what it all comes down to . |
| 28 | " Yes , well it all comes down to choices , does n't it ? " he said . |
| 29 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 30 | It all comes down to manpower . |