Sentence examples for preserved down to from inspiring English sources

But its history and grounds have been meticulously preserved, down to the dikes that once controlled the flow of water into its expansive rice fields.

I was not surprised when the deep-sea pictures of the Titanic showed it perfectly preserved, down to the crystal chandeliers.

Attic is one of the dialects in which the dual number is best preserved down to the threshold of the Hellenistic period.

Virtually the entire skeleton was preserved down to the smallest finger and toe bones, an extremely rare event.

The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry". "Discovering [these animals] washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron, I thought they were extraordinary -- every last tiny detail perfectly preserved down to the tip of a bat's tongue, the minute hairs on his face.

Reassuringly, key molecular characteristics such as the overexpression of ER cluster genes ESR1 and GATA3 in luminal MCF7 cells and of CAV1 in basal-like MDA-MB-231 cells, as well as the previously reported differences in EPCAM expression between luminal and basal-like breast cancer cell lines (Sieuwerts et al, 2009a), were highly preserved down to the single-cell level.

Like the abstract expressionists purposely made it hard on posterity by painting with house paint with no thought as to how it would get preserved down the line.

In the event, no one does complain, even when I stand next to Mars, close enough to see the silky thinness of the paint applied by Velázquez and preserved down the centuries.

In general, insects are not well preserved down the ages, so their fossil record is patchy.

The Stasi offices have also been carefully preserved, right down to the heavy curtains in the windows and the overstuffed meeting room chairs.

Mr. Maher was credited with preserving Down Beat as a leading forum on jazz.