Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where sexual intercourse takes place before the barrel of a gun , it seems quite appropriate that it should be up to the defence to discharge an evidential burden with respect to consent . |
| 2 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 3 | Your filter is fairly powerful and should be up to the job , but I must admit that I personally prefer undergravel filtration for almost all purposes . |
| 4 | Of course , some of the LSE II 's bass response must be down to the rosewood back and sides ; the chances are the mahogany version would be toppier-sounding , but both would make equally top-notch recording guitars . |
| 5 | It must be down to the record companies . |
| 6 | To that end , I felt , it must be back to the DIY stores . |
| 7 | Erm , there 's a nomination for , for the executive committee nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety four , erm , this must be back to the County by the twenty second September , nomination for the executive committee and up to twelve members may be nominated . |
| 8 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 9 | But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might |
| 10 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 11 | It 'll be back to the cattle trucks for the lot of us . ’ |
| 12 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 13 | We could be back to the boom that led to the crash that lost the job that paid for the house that Jack bought . |
| 14 | Well they were usually a line of kids standing along the wall or something and one set out in the middle of the field and then you had to touch them and then you 'd be back to the wall and they had to do it . |
| 15 | Well that would be up to the colleges , if they 're commercially astute they 'll say right yeah twenty-five quid for that , in fact it would be a lot less because it 's only for three months |
| 16 | It would be up to the courts to decide on the matter , ’ says her local trading standards officer , Mr Slater . |
| 17 | The Institute has been given legal advice to the effect that there is a possibility that the defence of qualified or absolute privilege might be available , but it would be up to the courts to decide and the only way of finding out would be a test case . |
| 18 | It would be up to the scientists to decide which is the viable option and which belongs to the realm of science fiction . |
| 19 | He would not dare ask for money ; instead it would be up to the gentleman to raise the matter and to give payment when he deemed suitable . |
| 20 | He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players . |
| 21 | However , the Government has proposed changing this so that the final decision would be up to the DoE . |
| 22 | It would be up to the psychologist to decide whether or not there was any mental impairment to their full understanding . ’ |
| 23 | A spokesman for the Department of Health and social security said a decision to implant an artificial heart would be up to the doctor ‘ like any other replacement operation ’ . |
| 24 | The underlying fear was that if we accepted any connection we would be back to the world of incomes policy . |
| 25 | But what I 'm saying is that obviously in that situation it would be back to the dealer and the dealer would deal with it . |
| 26 | Any rethink by the NRA would be down to the persistence of the members , he said . |
| 27 | I drove it both times in similar test conditions , so any change would be down to the car . |
| 28 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 29 | It will be up to the engineers to spread what resources there are as far as possible . |
| 30 | Whether or not this second series will be something the crew can be proud of , will be up to the viewers to decide . |