Example sentences of "up to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 2 | It is up to builders and developers to examine registers and seek out the owners to make an offer for any sale in which they are interested . |
| 3 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 4 | The leaves are ribbon-shaped , up to 30ins ( 75cms ) long and ¼ inch ( just over ½cm ) wide . |
| 5 | The argument comes just months after the ancient writings were finally opened up to scholars around the world , and it centres on a single phrase . |
| 6 | Most patio doors consist of one fixed and one sliding panel , up to widths of about 3050mm . |
| 7 | Dead-heading climbers and ramblers can often be a massive job involving step ladders to reach up to pergolas , arches and walls , and the larger shrub types can present the same problem . |
| 8 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 9 | Moving up to Pikes Crag , another pinnacle , known as Buckbarrow Needle , has a fine E1 5b up its front face — the obviously named Needle Front . |
| 10 | The triangular holes would match up to teeth on a key , of a similar design to that shown in Pic 2 . |
| 11 | Jean-Claude must have told M. Chaillot that , because of a bereavement , he was not up to contracts and their clauses , and discussions relating to money . |
| 12 | this delivering up to waters |
| 13 | There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters . |
| 14 | The research will try and determine users needs in terms of open systems and this year , for the first time , supply-side research will also be conducted to determine how vendors ' offerings measure up to users ' stated requirements . |
| 15 | The distance from the food source to the hive at which the changeover from round to waggle dance takes place differs between different races of bees ; Apis mellifera lamarcki , for example , do round dances up to distances of only about four yards , whereas Apis mellifera carnica do it up to about 16 yards . |
| 16 | Colin Perry has recorded how , as a carefree eighteen-year-old , he would climb up to rooftops in order to watch the air raids . |
| 17 | Moreover , as these demands have grown , so have the commercial pressures on companies to present their results and state of affairs in the best light , and this in turn has sometimes led to difficulties for auditors in standing up to directors who fix their remuneration and who , in practice , have the power to dismiss them . |
| 18 | Durham 's Assistant Chief Constable Eddy Marchant said : ‘ The decision as to whether a family member is used is always up to negotiators trained to judge the mood of the individual . |
| 19 | The Laming/Foster circular of last year held back from legislating on the purchaser/provider split , leaving it up to authorities to restructure services as they considered feasible . |
| 20 | It has to be said however that the presbytery , presbytery clerks er write their own agenda for these meetings er for these conferences and er it would be up to presbyteries to instruct their clerks that that had to go on their agenda . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's up to parents to make sure kids do n't eat them , ’ a company representative said . |
| 22 | It is up to parents to satisfy themselves as to the suitability of a childminder , and the social services department are not likely to want to become involved over minor issues . |
| 23 | By taking great care to minimize the disturbance level , experimenters have maintained laminar flow up to values of of around 1·0 × 105 . |
| 24 | This plant has lanceolate , broad leaves up to 10ins ( 25cms ) long and 2ins ( 5cms ) wide , that are deep green on the upper surface and light green on the under surface . |
| 25 | The entire leaf is up to 10ins ( 25cms ) long and 2ins ( 5cms ) wide . |
| 26 | Yet Chapman had his answer for the pessimists : if the game was becoming more defensive it was up to managers and players to do something about it . |
| 27 | ‘ I know it all depends on me how I stand up to games and how I play . ’ |
| 28 | What 's erm something up to jaws in n it or something ? |
| 29 | When a Masai owned up to cattle raiding and invited punishment he did so in a spirit , not of insolent defiance , but of self-respect . |
| 30 | The satellite carries a tape recorder which can hold up to 14-hours worth of data . |