Example sentences of "[be] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking one thing with another : body temperature , ambient temperature , the fact that Saturn is in the ascendant and it 's Sunday , I 'd say he 's been dead up to eighteen hours , probably not less than fourteen , that puts it between nine and one last night . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been right up to the fence several times ! |
| 3 | As with all our Go-As-You-Please Fly-Drive packages , your exact route and itinerary are entirely up to you . |
| 4 | however , however , however you judge these things are entirely up to those who are right and those who are receiving them , but I thought she was very good , she wrote some poems about us really |
| 5 | While civil servants and directors wade through the legal quagmire of whether to record unmet needs , many staff who have to implement the policy are already up to their necks in it . |
| 6 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |
| 7 | ‘ I think you 're right up to a point , ’ agrees Friday . |
| 8 | And they 're right up to a point . |
| 9 | I mean either that or they 're right up to your backside , you know , and I mean |
| 10 | ‘ But they 're obviously up to something . ’ |
| 11 | Seems we 're both up to our necks in it now . ’ |
| 12 | Of course you should have read them in between , so you 're now up to date . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd be even keener if he knew what we 're really up to . |
| 14 | The incomparable off-roader , its restyled interior also sets new luxury standards for a leisure vehicle — they 're fully up to the rich appointments of a Mercedes-Benz saloon . |
| 15 | People are always up to something . |
| 16 | ‘ We would like to see qualified people who are technically up to date . ’ |
| 17 | The text written with a generally light touch ( surely some unintentional humour : ‘ Some people consider Rego a feminist because her main characters are always women and they are usually up to mischief ’ ) but the artist 's biographies are fairly useless and the glossary too short to bother with . |
| 18 | Heights are usually up to 12.5 metres and lengths of about 20 metres . |
| 19 | A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions . |
| 20 | Even after a period when interest rates were higher than we would have liked , 39 mortgage payers are still up to date . |
| 21 | That is , when they 're not watching themselves in the mirrors , making sure that they are still up to the mark . |
| 22 | He thought that the Capra film had made ‘ greenish grass grow where there was only alkali dust before ’ because it consistently preferred ‘ the light touch to the heavy ’ and used actors ‘ who are thoroughly up to the work of acting ’ . |
| 23 | Prices in Greece and Portugal are also up to 40 per cent lower than in the rest of Europe . |
| 24 | The arm spines are finely rugose with occasional larger points , the second or third dorsal most ones which are often up to 2 arm segments long . |
| 25 | This erotic association , frequently strengthened by the most militant cult leaders being free-living divorcees and prostitutes , confirms men 's worst suspicions and prejudices about what their wives are really up to . |
| 26 | A brave attempt , but ruined by the fact that neither of the elements are really up to much . |
| 27 | Timman and Speelman , without time-outs , are now up to game number seven . |
| 28 | Since this release the Toms have followed up with the equally impressive ‘ Ruff Disco EP ’ from Nature Boy and are now up to a healthy six releases . |
| 29 | Many of its main weapons , from tanks and aircraft to submarines , were bootlegged and upgraded from Soviet designs that are now up to 40 years old . |
| 30 | There are now up to twenty Loyalist death squads in activity and it is quite clear that no circumstances given the intensity of their attacks , the geographical spread of their attacks and the reckless abandon of their attacks , there is a very substantial risk to the entire catholic community . |