Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Community midwives used to have to visit every mum , as a minimum , twice a day up to postnatal day three , and then daily up to day ten .
2 It 's only up to Christmas .
3 Of course that was just stage one , when we moved gently up into position at the Valve .
4 The Dictionary as a whole needs to be kept constantly up to date .
5 Some of the new investment is financed by parent companies , as is shown by the growing share of investment in subsidiaries , but the resale of less up to date equipment to subcontractors is also a common practice .
6 So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date .
7 Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years .
8 The shop 's already up for sale .
9 With Okapi '86 we were already up against hardware constraints , as much due to disk access times as to CPU speed .
10 To give a period look , the bath and basin have been panelled and the walls tiled just up to dado height .
11 Come on you can go and sit back in there for two minutes , your just up to mischief out here , yeah , go on that 's what you want do n't , play with
12 If they are not up to standard then the supplier is in breach of his contract with you and you are entitled to your money back .
13 Pakistan hit back with claims that the England umpires were not up to standard , repeating calls for neutral officials in future .
14 Seconded to each enterprise and design bureau , they are empowered to reject , at factory expense , production which is not up to standard .
15 G. says he thinks the man is lying , that the vat went over not by accident but because the ice cream was not up to standard and pouring it away was the most convenient way of getting rid of it .
16 Under such automated systems and automated quality controls , the production line will be stopped if performance is not up to standard .
17 There are many standard ways of making disapproval obvious in an oblique way ( not up to quota , not up to standard , disappointing , seem unable to match performance of competitor , there must be a problem somewhere , etc. ) which may be less offensive than the direct method — but may also be less effective .
18 The inspections will be carried out at local level by independent inspectors who will be registered with Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , which will withdraw the registration of inspectors who are not up to standard .
19 They protest when the food is not up to standard or of the quality that they have come to expect .
20 Crawford had already clashed with Sherrin when told one week that Lewis and Dobereiner 's script was , unusually for them , not up to standard and , although he would be paid , he would not appear unless they provided a better one .
21 ‘ Her work was not up to standard .
22 ‘ Games can be cancelled in the Midlands Senior League for the slightest reason and the opposition is not up to standard .
23 We decided the cleaning was not up to standard at that particular time .
24 Bennett said : ‘ The food provided on Thursday was not up to standard so we decided to provide our own .
25 there and I said no my handsome you did n't pick that up and the case fell , fell to bi he , cos he was going on this is inferior not up to standard and so I said
26 Despite various friends trying out the route and checking the text , the book is not up to date .
27 First of all , if the records are not up to date — and it is difficult to see how they could be up to date during high level activity — the source of the information is missing .
28 The figures for Newham are dated 14 November , so I hope that we do not hear Ministers say that they are not up to date .
29 Not up to date , but she does them six months in advance .
30 There are many standard ways of making disapproval obvious in an oblique way ( not up to quota , not up to standard , disappointing , seem unable to match performance of competitor , there must be a problem somewhere , etc. ) which may be less offensive than the direct method — but may also be less effective .
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