Example sentences of "up to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they will add up to is anyone 's guess at the moment ; inflation , uncertainty about the pace and impact of climate change , and the political factors which govern priorities make any attempt at assessment a futile exercise . |
| 2 | Whatever they get up to is their own business , but I wish more of them would stay open . |
| 3 | The second factor is less obviously helpful at first glance but what it adds up to is calorie saving ! |
| 4 | Chairperson of Westport UDC , Sean Staunton , who is also chairperson of Ireland West Tourism welcomed the decision to refuse planning permission and asked : ‘ The question everybody must face up to is — do we want the short-term and dubious economic benefits of all mining in this area or the long-term and positive benefits of ongoing tourism and development ? ’ |
| 5 | The only way to discover exactly how much this all adds up to is to make a daily note of everything you spend , for a month . |
| 6 | ‘ A model of rectitude Madame Chardin may be , and a dab hand at Latin declensions and trigonometry , but what the girls get up to is something else , ’ Violette countered mysteriously . |
| 7 | What all of this adds up to is the conclusion that drawing the line between activities that firms can and can not undertake co-operatively is almost impossible to do in the abstract . |
| 8 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 9 | What these contradictions add up to is the paradoxical point that the ‘ frozen moment of loveliness is more dynamic than the fluid world of reality only because it is frozen ’ , that art is more vivid than life only because it is not alive . |
| 10 | As I have already suggested , this interpretation of what Britain signed up to is highly debatable . |
| 11 | Working out what you 're up to is child 's play . ’ |
| 12 | The point that the hon. Gentleman will not face up to is this — |
| 13 | The only thing she 's a little bit shaky on what she owns up to is German , she was n't too happy about the German . |
| 14 | Velocities up to are well out of the range of the rotation velocity ( 250kms -1 ) of the galaxy NGC4258 7 and are much higher than any velocities known for molecular gas in our Galaxy or other galaxies ( for example for H 2 O maser in for CO in the galaxy for OH in the galaxy NGC253 13 ) . |
| 15 | He has miraculously survived all this , and even being education secretary , but how would he measure up to being chairman , in a party where , in times of stress , to be party chairman is a greater thing than to be a secretary of state ? |
| 16 | It would have been hard for the toughest , most stable and secure character to stand up to being dream symbol to the world . |
| 17 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider . |
| 19 | I have seen people close to tears as they own up to being over 50 . |
| 20 | There is also a natural reluctance to own up to being a ‘ failure ’ , so the students who do vanish probably include a higher percentage of unemployed people than do those who respond to the universities ' questions . |
| 21 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 22 | Although the proceedings are always enlivened by Diana 's presence , no true Lorenzo-goer would ever be caught dead owning up to being in awe of her . |
| 23 | King Vidor , who directed him in Man Without a Star in 1955 , said , ‘ I felt throughout the filming that Kirk was working himself up to being a director . |
| 24 | However , looking back , and especially looking back after all the interlacements of Volumes Two and Three , one might well think that besides an image of life ‘ the Road ’ has crept up to being an image of Providence . |
| 25 | Wearing so many ‘ hats ’ can be very manipulative because of being involved in everything but it also opens one up to being oppressed within the different groups . |
| 26 | He had not said , Frankly , Peter , you are not up to being Archdeacon , he had instead emphasized the need for someone from outside the diocese , for someone with ecumenical experience in urban work , for someone accustomed to ministerial care . |
| 27 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 28 | Because I 'm afraid of being the victim I 'll bubble my way up to being either the rescuer or the persecutor . |
| 29 | Would it , for example , stand up to being used by other teachers with other students , possibly even in other institutions ? |
| 30 | We often refer to the output as ‘ disposable typesetting ’ , it 's ideal for things with a short shelf life like magazines but not really up to being used for presentation material such as a company report . |