Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been right up to the fence several times ! |
| 2 | — 3:11 : " I am not up to the job . " |
| 3 | ‘ Tipperary are already through to the knock-out stages of the league and ca n't be caught , but mindful of their pride and arrogance they wo n't be doing us too many favours . ’ |
| 4 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 5 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 6 | Individually , we are not up to the task of trying to handle our own uniqueness . |
| 7 | There are a number of members who are not up to the job . |
| 8 | Women are not given the opportunities because very often they are not up to the job . |
| 9 | And the reason they are not up to the job is that those in charge of hiring them are mostly men . |
| 10 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 11 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 12 | Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time . |
| 13 | A goal from Cliftonville striker Ron Manley in the first half was enough to settle this most disappointing affair ; the only consolation for Linfield is that they 're already through to the quarter-finals . |
| 14 | Does this mean that they 're not up to the job ? |
| 15 | We 're also off to the West Ham game on Wed 8th , but Leeds tickets are limited to Sunderland-attenders — AGAIN ! |
| 16 | Er , it takes me an hour to get there , if I 'm lucky now at roadworks and charging time in one day , is like an hour to patch , then you 're out on to the patch , in between appointments running about because Derby 's quite a big area , er , again if you 've got to cover an appointment in Matlock and you 're in Derby in the morning you 're talking a good forty five minute run to get there . |
| 17 | We 're now back to the page that we were on which is six six one |
| 18 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 19 | That is , when they 're not watching themselves in the mirrors , making sure that they are still up to the mark . |
| 20 | He thought that the Capra film had made ‘ greenish grass grow where there was only alkali dust before ’ because it consistently preferred ‘ the light touch to the heavy ’ and used actors ‘ who are thoroughly up to the work of acting ’ . |
| 21 | Craig ( 1987 ) concludes that the trends are now back to the pre-industrialization pattern of population and that the ‘ 1911 type ’ may eventually turn out to have been exceptional . |
| 22 | erm That 'll be more down to the chairman than myself , he 'll put you more in line with that . |
| 23 | I 'm now down to the weight my doctor said I should be . |
| 24 | Under the registration of inspectors advocated by the Bill , local government inspection will be universally up to the standard which at the moment only the very best attain . |
| 25 | The voices of money , weather and pornography ( all that uncontrollable stuff ) , they just are n't up to the job when it comes to Martina . |
| 26 | Mike Gatting will probably get the job this winter , but I doubt if either he or the two younger contenders , Mike Atherton and Alex Stewart , are quite up to the task of masterminding a major English renaissance . |
| 27 | Now we are almost up to the present . |
| 28 | ‘ If [ the searcher ] is a lawyer , private publishers supply annually updated texts which are almost up to the minute when purchased and databases which are at least adequate . |
| 29 | After a brief stay at Kyle we were soon up to the house and burn near Sandaig Lighthouse , the undisclosed setting , I suspect , of Gavin Maxwell 's otter book " Ring of Bright Water " , later to be filmed . |
| 30 | Both sides struggled to find their rhythm during that opening 45 minutes , perhaps a legacy of the fact that they were already through to the quarter-final stages . |