Example sentences of "be [adv prt] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 2 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 3 | A third are down to the thermal imaging capability . |
| 4 | All that has long since changed and , while talent can still win the day , both fields are down to the hard graft of making money . |
| 5 | Henley rowers Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent are through to the coxless pairs finals in the Olympics . |
| 6 | Well , that 's good if it 's working well , it 's working well , but here , if you 're here , say for a late afternoon meeting or something , and you 're wondering what these screaming bells are , they 're the night bells , and you can pick them up by picking up your handset and pressing 8 and that is it , and you 're through to the outside world . |
| 7 | Today we 're off to the charming isle of St Lucia where our winner and a friend will enjoy seven nights at the Le Sport Hotel , full board in a private air-conditioned room . |
| 8 | We 're back to the normal agenda , item eight on page thirty-six . |
| 9 | Now they 're back to the good weather again . |
| 10 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |
| 11 | And so we 're back to the old problem . ’ |
| 12 | We 're back to the whole problem |
| 13 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 14 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
| 15 | These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short . |
| 16 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 17 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 18 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 19 | He thrust a mess tin full of steak and kidney into my hand , and with a scowl on his face he remarked , ‘ After this lot , Piper , we are back to the usual shit , unless something special turns up , like cooks and normal rations ! ’ |
| 20 | THE Harvest Ministers are back to the live front with two major gigs in the coming weeks . |
| 21 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |
| 22 | In his opening speech , the hon. Member for Birkenhead said that we should ’ bring forward ’ the arrangements which will prevail after 1993 , but it will not be down to the local adjudication officer to assess people to decide the appropriate care and to assess the reasonable rate . |
| 23 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 24 | All entries must be in to the Green Dragon Museum Theatre Yard , Stockton , by May 23 . |
| 25 | Just give you one quick smack and that 'll be through to the other side ! |
| 26 | About-to-be-ex-Lit-Ed , actually , come early January ( I 'm off to the Independent Magazine , which , although it 's the most literary colour supplement in town , does not and will not run book reviews ) ; but while there is a breath of bookish discernment left in my body , I suggest the following thoughts about the spring lists . |
| 27 | " Many more schemes are due to be completed in the next few years , so that by 1995 virtually all our bathing waters will be up to the required standard " , Trippier claimed . |
| 28 | ‘ It will probably take a few more days before we know the source , but it would be up to the Disciplinary Committee to decide whether it will be made public , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Speaking to MEPs on Jan. 21 Poos declared : " There is a structural weakness in existing political co-operation and it will be up to the intergovernmental conference [ opened in December 1990 — see p. 37905 ] to tackle and reverse that " . |
| 30 | After that it would be up to the German socialists to respond , pressing their own Government to adopt positions convergent with the emergent consensus among the Allies . |