Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | As more animals have been brought inside by the introduction of intensive feeding systems , so more land has been given up to arable production . |
| 3 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 4 | Twenty five enterprise zones have been designated up to May 1990 throughout the UK . |
| 5 | The steady increase in the number of complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's report has continued ; 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 6 | The steady increase in complaints against members of the Bar mentioned in last year 's Report has continued , 262 complaints having been received up to the end of September . |
| 7 | Yesterday 's CSO figures showed that the July total had been revised up to £2,487million from the previous £2,225 million figure . |
| 8 | It noted that non-oil economic growth in the first quarter had been revised up to 0.7pc . |
| 9 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 10 | And in addition to that , as governments knew that the House of Commons would not be agreeable , ah , the ah , polite phrase is ‘ had not been educated up to ’ , ah , the acceptance of a transfer of sovereignty of the islands , an additional ingredient was thrown in . |
| 11 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 12 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 13 | I 've been there , do n't forget , and I 've seen how you are looked up to . |
| 14 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 15 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 16 | The most colourful of Appenzell 's many processions is the ascent to the mountains , when the cattle are moved up to their summer quarters . |
| 17 | ‘ For Christ 's sake — because I believe Tweed is innocent , that he 's been framed up to the hilt . |
| 18 | By 1660 , the mill had been built up to quite a substantial and sophisticated concern , now housing three pairs of fulling stocks , dye houses and shearing and warping rooms . |
| 19 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 20 | In some circumstances the supervisor is in a position to visit his own views about policy and practice onto his junior colleagues , since he is the channel through which information and recommendations are transmitted up to senior staff and policy directives are funnelled down . |
| 21 | Smaller practitioners are fed up to the back teeth with all forms of regulation , and audit regulation in particular . |
| 22 | What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers , which we call cists , and which have been uncovered up to now ? |
| 23 | Acidifying droplets can reduce the growth of trees and crops , at concentrations far lower , than had been suspected up to now . |
| 24 | Experiments have been using deuterium alone , and the temperature of the plasma has been pushed up to 300 million degrees . |
| 25 | Repeated attempts to salvage her had been made up to 1840 , CH 1 . |
| 26 | Laboratory studies have been made up to about 10 6 bars , at which pressures molecular hydrogen is still liquid even at 170 K. However , such pressures are encountered at depths of only a few 1000 km below the clouds , and therefore theoretical studies have to be used to obtain the phase-diagram at greater pressures . |
| 27 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 28 | Postal bookings are accepted up to 48 hours before the screening or event . |
| 29 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 30 | In the case of Re C ( a Minor ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 18 November it was stated to be advisable , for example , for the Official Solicitor to continue to act as guardian in public law proceedings relating to a former ward of court where these are transferred up to the High Court . |