Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because its results were not up to expectations Rentokil is paying $2m less for the business than planned . |
| 2 | Sometimes we did well , sometimes we did n't ; the prices were not up to much . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of people down south were suggesting before our matches against Leeds that we were not up to it , but I think we 've done more than enough to show that we are . |
| 4 | Pakistan hit back with claims that the England umpires were not up to standard , repeating calls for neutral officials in future . |
| 5 | Papanek did explain that stories were commissioned on both Rugby World Cups , but both times they were not up to his magazine 's standards . |
| 6 | These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ . |
| 7 | We recognise that the bulk of actual recruitment spade work will be done at a local level , but , apart from a few heroic efforts , the branches were not up to it . |
| 8 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 9 | The spindly chairs against the walls were not up to it . |
| 10 | A letter was considered regarding a tutor whose students were not registered and who were not up to examination standard . |
| 11 | Andrew said : ‘ Everybody had to go through a medical before the show and if they were not up to it , they did not go in — we had to be very careful because of their health and safety . ’ |
| 12 | After a brief stay at Kyle we were soon up to the house and burn near Sandaig Lighthouse , the undisclosed setting , I suspect , of Gavin Maxwell 's otter book " Ring of Bright Water " , later to be filmed . |
| 13 | She hoped his maps were more up to date and accurate than the one she had bought at the newsstand . |
| 14 | Bastard Russians were still up to their old tricks . |
| 15 | Bill Westland , environmental projects manager for Darlington Council , disclosed the ploy to the authority 's working party on the control of dogs yesterday after announcing there were still up to 50 unregistered dangerous dogs , such as pit bull terriers and Japanese Tosas , being kept in the town . |
| 16 | Oh , it was easy to see what they were both up to ! |
| 17 | This implies that there were probably up to 300 injectors among Wirral 's known heroin users in 1985–6 , enough to make the potential spread of HIV infection in Wirral an issue of major concern . |
| 18 | If it were purely up to me , I might well feel disposed to tell you everything you wanted to know . ’ |
| 19 | This led him to accept work in productions that really were n't up to his standard and the increased bookings resulted in a massive turnover of dancers . |
| 20 | What they saw , as one put it , were two people who were n't up to boating in the bath , never mind on the Thames in spate . |
| 21 | Or maybe you did n't work hard enough , or had chosen subjects you really did n't enjoy , or you just were n't up to it . |
| 22 | Well , they were n't up to much , I do n't suppose . |
| 23 | There would be a lot of smoke and flames , and the pilot would try to put out the fire with his flying gloves , but they just were n't up to it ; and while he was coping with this emergency , the plane would start to dive and spin . |
| 24 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 25 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 26 | ‘ She does n't get out much , ’ said Shirley flatly : a statement at once accurate and wonderfully , gloriously misleading : ‘ she does n't get out much ’ , an acceptable phrase , a dull little coin , an everyday coin , suggesting a mild , an ordinary , a commonplace disinclination , for in Northam ‘ getting out ’ was in many circles regarded as suspect , as improper , as leading to no good ( those making merry in Breasbrough , for example , were undoubtedly up to no good ) — a freak tolerated in the young , though with much grumbling , but considered dissolute , wayward , against nature in their elders . |
| 27 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 28 | Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed . |
| 29 | The Lowsons were reckoned to be very good farmers and they were very up to date . |
| 30 | I really regret it now , but at the time everything was right up to there , you know . |