Example sentences of "[pers pn] up to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard .
2 So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious .
3 So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim .
4 Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day
5 The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house .
6 I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal
7 The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century .
8 The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards .
9 He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted .
10 Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges .
11 A modern Roman Catholic authority recounts a story which brings them up to the fourth century — the time of Constantine .
12 If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard .
13 The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen .
14 ‘ Take me up to the twentieth floor , quickly , ’ she said .
15 Shelley , already on her feet , carried her up to the medical centre with Carlos 's help .
16 Her father drove her up to the smart neighbourhood where the Smiths lived and parked his car outside .
17 Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to .
18 They struggled up the steps , through the entrance hall , rested in the main hall , then took him up to the first floor .
19 ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said .
20 To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home .
21 Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor .
22 We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation .
23 But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds .
24 They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea .
25 Graft and corruption goes o throughout Italy , but it 's the extent of it and who was involved in it up to the Prime Minister that was the problem , but no I have no problems , John I know you 're trying to get on .
26 Then they backed it up to the front door and they all charged inside . ’
27 Everything about it up to the last page where Strauss wrote IN MEMORIAM ! and we hear the ‘ Eroica ’ theme for the last time .
28 If you are paid a weekly wage , then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on .
29 It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps .
30 Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened .
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