Example sentences of "be [vb pp] up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 3 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 4 | In the case of Re C ( a Minor ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 18 November it was stated to be advisable , for example , for the Official Solicitor to continue to act as guardian in public law proceedings relating to a former ward of court where these are transferred up to the High Court . |
| 5 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 6 | They were the disciples of one Malam Ibrahim , a teacher of the Koran whose studies had slowly convinced him that the Jesus of whom he read in its pages was the mediator through whom the prayers of the faithful are offered up to the All-Merciful . |
| 7 | Furthermore , he will know that his contemporaries are not really too keen on its revelation : indeed they may well argue that the police have research facilities of their own which are geared up to the internal needs and interests of the institution ( Benyon 1988 : 21 ) . |
| 8 | With his skill as the basis , the Embalmer will not be content unless all other departments with which he has contact are brought up to the highest possible standard . |
| 9 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 10 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 11 | As I arrived a tractor pulled up with sacks of freshly-picked hops that would be carried up to the main floor of the building to be dried . |
| 12 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 13 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 14 | The conflicts which have developed over land and housing can also be linked up to the very mobility of incomers . |
| 15 | All cameras sold prior to these improvements will be brought up to the new specifications entirely free of charge . |
| 16 | In short , all existing and future minerals planning permissions must be brought up to the environmental standards expected today , and provision must be made for a regular upgrading of standards in the future . |
| 17 | The subject will actually come into the sleep laboratory in the afternoon , would be wired up to the small box , would go home , essentially carrying just a normal briefcase , a businessman from the office or whatever . |
| 18 | To this I would wire 2 of my 3 200 watt heaters ; the third would be wired up to the internal stat . |
| 19 | As always with cohort measures , the data can not be taken up to the present day without a considerable element of projection ( broken line ) of the generation rate . |
| 20 | Blood sugar needs to be kept up to the correct level in order to allow both body and mind to function correctly , and the body is very clever at informing us of its requirements . |
| 21 | It can be pleated up to the exact length of your particular curtain fixture by adjusting the amount of fabric in each pleat and the spaces between them . |
| 22 | The Crown alleged that this was done at the instigation of the appellant with knowledge that the money should have been delivered up to the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 23 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 24 | The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack . |
| 25 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 26 | By 1975 the Worcester project was ‘ well under way ’ , and by 1979 all the beds and hospital places , which were provided up to the prescribed national levels proportional to the catchment population , had been opened . |
| 27 | Results from the array of 21 sediment cores ( in gm -2 yr -1 ) were scaled up to the entire lake using Thiessen polygons . |
| 28 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 29 | This little corn mill was certainly still being worked up to the late 1920s . |
| 30 | The principles of training laid down by Stirling differed from those in the Commandos , where a group of volunteers , once recruited , were nursed up to the required standard . |