Example sentences of "[was/were] up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 2 | This problem is only because you 're doing them retrospectively , if you were up to date you would n't have a problem at all would you ? |
| 3 | The boys , both lively and active , were up to mischief all day long . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to know what you were up to while I was away , ’ said Constance . |
| 5 | Travellers were up to half-an-hour late . |
| 6 | Surely it was up to Mum to get on her feet again ? |
| 7 | So it was it was up to Mum to make you nice and tidy and smart , like they always used to look after you , and send you down and say , Do n't come back without it . |
| 8 | His reading was up to standard for Mrs Hartridge 's class and his writing was progressing well . |
| 9 | Most of the country 's fertility clinics were listed , although none of the catalogues was up to date . |
| 10 | Er mainly because in the past they did n't have the proper equipment to do the work that they were engaged on anyway , and although their own minds would clearly tell them that they would identify the work with certain equipment you know , that was up to date and you know , would make life easier for them and be able to produce more , I think some of them er er their minds were overshadowed by the fact that er there was a degree of mistrust between them and the management , that they would ever get the proper equipment to do the job . |
| 11 | Mr Crumwallis , satisfied that it was up to date , handed it to Mike Pumfrey , who inspected it in silence . |
| 12 | So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up . |
| 13 | She was doing well at college , all her work was up to date and she did n't seem at all under pressure . |
| 14 | I mean the book itself is just published last , er Thursday I believe it was , and er so it was up to date , is up to date until the summer , which is you know more up to date than any other book , so it 's got things like : Greta Garbo dying , and Princess Eugenie being born and Nelson Mandela being free , and of course it 's the first encyclopaedia to have all the details of nineteen eighty nine , the , the upheaval in , in Europe , all the political changes and whatever . |
| 15 | Hoomey was afraid Nails was up to mischief . |
| 16 | He said Novell was interested in exploring the possibility of offering links to all operating systems and Apple wanted to start penetrating the corporate environment ; it was up to Apple whether to take the project to the next step . |
| 17 | Trade associations have been informed but Customs & Excise said it was up to industry bodies to inform their members . |