Example sentences of "[be] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Unification Church and they 're stealing a march on us right enough and that 's what they 're doing — stealing that march — and they 're up to no good in their unification and I know they 're not and they know I know they 're not and that 's why it all happened . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 're up to the roof are n't they ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As far as I can make out we 're up to , we 're up to the darts competition |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 8 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 9 | Naturally they probably think the police are up to no good . |
| 10 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 11 | The alternatives are up to a pint of seed bait , such as sweetcorn , a pint of casters , etc . |
| 12 | It 's estimated there are up to a thousand homeless people in Swindon … and the Breakfast Club is seen as one way to make life more tolerable … |
| 13 | There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks . |
| 14 | I hope you are up to the job . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Right now we know that the angle from where we are up to the top is forty degrees . |
| 19 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
| 20 | I urge my hon. Friend to keep in close touch to make sure that response times are up to the charter . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Meanwhile , until we know what the Kamalians are up to the more people we have on the job the better . |
| 24 | Biggar are up to the task |
| 25 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 27 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 28 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 29 | Well , it will surprise you to know that Mrs Glen thought I , me , myself , personally had been up to no good . |
| 30 | North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good . |