Example sentences of "[be] [adv] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been down to Goring for Marius ' funeral , ( having found out the time by ringing Morrison at Orme Gardens ) . |
| 2 | We do n't now go on the Saga holidays , simply because they er or solely because you need to go down to Gatwick to catch the planes and we 're not to doing that East Midlands or . |
| 3 | The thing is , I mean we 're hardly to getting to grips with other people . |
| 4 | ‘ Now we 're back to doing what we do best — being Big Country . |
| 5 | We leave , saddened by the plight and determined to come for longer the next time , to stay through a winter and spring , to find out what that old woman had really been up to holding that white sheet up to the Northern Lights . |
| 6 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 7 | Find I 'm down to using it twice a week now . |
| 8 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 9 | A mechanical amplifier had been envisaged by Edison in 1877 , and an electronic amplifier by Lee de Forest in 1914 ; but there proved to be more to solving the problem than that . |
| 10 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 11 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 12 | Here , at least , the level of knowledge should be up to answering more detailed questions . |
| 13 | If this is the case , then it should be up to defending counsel to set it on its feet and persuade the judge to place the matter before the jury . |
| 14 | But then he 'd have to take the desk with him if he was n't to be completely disorientated , and he 'd never be up to manhandling such a heavy piece of furniture . |
| 15 | If it picks an insider or a retiree , then we will all be back to writing the company 's obituary in three months ' time so it has to be an outsider , and one name canvassed that should be crossed off the list at once is that of ‘ Neutron ’ Jack Welch , boss of General Electric Co — not because he does n't have the capability but because he does not have a background in the computer industry . |
| 16 | Now they were down to living on his salary alone , this was an important factor . |
| 17 | But none of the gunmen looked like they were up to doing very much of anything . |
| 18 | And erm I think that that is a very dangerous situation to get ourselves in even in a county where the emphasis is on to protecting er er on environmental protection . |
| 19 | You can imagine busy hands flying around the cockpit selecting emergency oxygen on , power down , airbrakes out , wait until speed is down to manoeuvring values , add drag if necessary , then push the nose down . |
| 20 | explained : ‘ In general it is down to having good management — knowing how to push people and giving them a clear context to work within . |
| 21 | So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er |
| 22 | There is more to choosing a carpet than price . |
| 23 | Yet we all know , even if we submit to this approach as a temporary — and perhaps very fruitful — measure , that there is more to using language , and communicating successfully with other people , than being able to produce correct sentences . |
| 24 | There is more to looking better than losing weight . |
| 25 | However , some may feel that there is more to footing a bill than merely paying it : there is a hint of reluctance , of the imposition of an unwelcome demand for money on the payer , which renders the equivalence of the contrasts in 17 slightly suspect . |
| 26 | We should also recognize that there is more to producing and understanding meaningful language — to communicating — than knowing how to make or recognize correct sentences . |
| 27 | As N.R. Hanson has put it , ‘ There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball ’ . |
| 28 | Sydney shut-out : Martin Bayfield got the better of Wallaby John Eales this time , but discovered that there is more to winning line-out ball than being the tallest man on the park as Australia waltzed away 40–15 . |
| 29 | There is more to running a boarding house than ever you would think Minnie and hardest of all is the impossibility of finding reliable and trustworthy staff who are not forever thinking of themselves first in a way we would not have dared . |
| 30 | There 's more to getting the chop than meets the eye , as Gill Kersley looks at blocks across the board |