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

No	Sentence
1	They refused to reveal what they had each been up to in the States .
2	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 .
3	They typically have widths of 30 60km , but some are up to 100 km across .
4	Some were up to an inch wide and ten or eleven inches long .
5	This is up to you , but it is a good hook to introduce a later adventure with .
6	This is up to the player .
7	‘ This is up to date is n't it ? ’
8	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 .
9	Well , this is up to you to decide what you actually
10	this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth
11	this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth
12	If you can not use the terms I have offered you , the choice of another is up to you .
13	number six is up to three hundred .
14	Where you travel on your day out of the ordinary is up to you .
15	The leaves growing submerged are up to 8ins ( 20cms ) long and 6ins ( 16cms ) broad , light green , translucent , deeply heart-shaped and crinkled .
16	‘ We have suffered some serious setbacks through injuries , but when you tour you do so with a full squad and they must all be up to the mark . ’
17	Not all were up to the standard of Miss Clarke , most were a lot older .
18	According to TNT station manager Rhys Roberts , the number of outbound consignments in the latter half of 1992 were up to 70 per cent on the same months in 1991 , with inbound traffic up by 30 per cent .
19	A year later the figure was 4,948 , or 10pc , and by January 1992 was up to 5,229 , or 10.5pc .
20	These drifting nets of thin monofilament nylon may each be up to 50 km ( 31 miles ) in length , and portions are inevitably lost in bad weather .
21	I think he 'd done a few Compact 's up to then , but he was marvellous .
22	That is up to you .
23	That is up to you . ’
24	If he does … choose to leave his existing employment before the last minute in order to look for a new job before the rush of others competing with him comes , then that is up to him .
25	That is up to Parliament .
26	Over the range of moisture contents likely to be reached in air the lateral dimensions of wood can thus change between five and ten per cent , that is up to an inch on a ten-inch-wide plank .
27	This will not solve the problem here nor create the jobs which are needed — that is up to the IDB and the government .
28	‘ That is up to you , ’ said Fael-Inis , and without warning his eyes grew remote and fiery ; they became inward-looking , and slanted more strongly than before .
29	We do not yet know the precise figures required — that is up to British Coal .
30	Saints ' chairman Eric Latham said today : ‘ Nobody at St Helens has been offered a better contract than Gary Connolly and we hope he will sign it , but that is up to Gary .