Example sentences of "[pron] up to scratch " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these people needed a boot up the backside at regular intervals to keep them up to scratch . |
| 2 | Much work was needed to bring them up to scratch and the small band worked hard to ready everything for an opening to the public in June . |
| 3 | Once SSI and regional health authority monitoring has identified those authorities which were to slow to progress , the pressure was on to bring them up to scratch . |
| 4 | and they 've got to keep them up to scratch |
| 5 | And the worst branches have been given the , the , the stiffer targets to get them up to scratch . |
| 6 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 7 | Did he mean to let Ned know that he had not found her up to scratch and then , after so much humiliation , deliver her over to the Dallams ? |
| 8 | Got ta bring him up to scratch . |
| 9 | If we moved in then we 'd have to spend fifty thousand pound to get it up to scratch . |
| 10 | They obviously keep it cut and keep it up to scratch . |
| 11 | I hope to leave work in a month 's time and get myself up to scratch with my reading . |