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

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1 It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it .
2 They 're up to the roof are n't they ?
3 and the Tory , you know they 're giving them victory because they they supposedly we 're we 're up to the , up to as many er we 're level with the with the Labour party now .
4 As far as I can make out we 're up to , we 're up to the darts competition
5 It 's actually and that 's the most absorbent time , your mind 's most absorbent where you 're up to the age of five which is when you should when you 're at nursery school .
6 I hope you are up to the job .
7 No doubt theorists are up to the challenge presented by the new results and will come back in time with new estimates , before they declare the proton stable .
8 These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short .
9 Of course , saying that , I am assuming these instruments are up to the company 's usual standard and not just the poor man 's alternative .
10 Right now we know that the angle from where we are up to the top is forty degrees .
11 Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter .
12 I urge my hon. Friend to keep in close touch to make sure that response times are up to the charter .
13 The new , independent Her Majesty 's inspectorate will have the duty of giving a little lion stamp to those inspectors and ensuring that they are up to the mark .
14 The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level .
15 ‘ Meanwhile , until we know what the Kamalians are up to the more people we have on the job the better .
16 Biggar are up to the task
17 Have you been up to the house yet ? ’
18 Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty .
19 I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone .
20 I saw him — never mind how , I 'll tell you later , but the point is , he 's been up to the house and taken things .
21 Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level .
22 This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day .
23 A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors .
24 And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step
25 So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic .
26 Fucking alright , I have n't been up to the today , I 've spent most of it sat fucking here .
27 And has he been up to the top of the
28 I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people .
29 However , the Government has proposed changing this so that the final decision would be up to the DoE .
30 It would then be up to the US and Canada to decide whether they want to face towards the Atlantic or Pacific — or be caught between two great trading oceans .
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