Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1 They refused to reveal what they had each been up to in the States .
2 And , after thrashing Widnes and a superb performance in losing at St Helens last Sunday , there are signs the Headingley faithful are about to be rewarded .
3 By this time , some are up to 14″ — but because the original outlay on stock did n't break the bank , Ken can offer them remarkably reasonably-priced .
4 They typically have widths of 30 60km , but some are up to 100 km across .
5 Some were up to an inch wide and ten or eleven inches long .
6 This is up to you , but it is a good hook to introduce a later adventure with .
7 This is up to the player .
8 This is up to date is n't it ? ’
9 th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know .
10 Well , this is up to you to decide what you actually
11 this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth
12 this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth
13 Of course , much of this is down to familiarity — knowing where the goal posts are .
14 By 7 years only 1.5 per cent of children are still soiling and by 10 to 11 years this is down to 0.8 per cent ( Bellman 1966 ) .
15 Once again , this is down to the importance of songs and the unimportance of ‘ product ’ .
16 I tell her that her house is lovely and Mowatt waves a smooth dismissive hand , saying ‘ This is down to Bob ’ .
17 Apart from the voltage of the battery , the re-charge time is an important feature of the cordless tool and this is down to the chargers .
18 A great deal of this is down to the fact that the sweet spot is in exactly the same position throughout the set .
19 This is down to a local council 's Engineers Department who provide the street names for new developments .
20 ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson .
21 ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson .
22 But I am plagued by the thought that we have arrived at a moment in history when this is about to be swept away .
23 Also the M forty is down to two lanes in both directions between junctions five and seven , that 's between Stokenchurch and Thame .
24 If you can not use the terms I have offered you , the choice of another is up to you .
25 By the 1992 election , this was down to 95.3 per cent .
26 Preliminaries are over : God 's warning of 4:22–23 is about to be realized .
27 In the Cup , so much is down to luck of one kind or another and one flash of individual brillance can settle it .
28 number six is up to three hundred .
29 Where you travel on your day out of the ordinary is up to you .
30 The leaves growing submerged are up to 8ins ( 20cms ) long and 6ins ( 16cms ) broad , light green , translucent , deeply heart-shaped and crinkled .
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