Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course you should have read them in between , so you 're now up to date . |
| 2 | AMIDST THE wild-ish scenes , L7 are delightfully down to earth . |
| 3 | ‘ We would like to see qualified people who are technically up to date . ’ |
| 4 | The text written with a generally light touch ( surely some unintentional humour : ‘ Some people consider Rego a feminist because her main characters are always women and they are usually up to mischief ’ ) but the artist 's biographies are fairly useless and the glossary too short to bother with . |
| 5 | A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions . |
| 6 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
| 7 | Even after a period when interest rates were higher than we would have liked , 39 mortgage payers are still up to date . |
| 8 | They are still down to earth but holy as well . |
| 9 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 10 | A radio paging system means staff can be bleeped when needed , all they have to do is go to the nearest intercom substation and they are straight through to reception or the management office . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |
| 12 | Timman and Speelman , without time-outs , are now up to game number seven . |
| 13 | ‘ So you 'll be right back to nature , and let us hope that the natives are friendly . ’ |
| 14 | Answer guide : This information tends to be more up to date and detailed as compared to published accounting information . |
| 15 | I think you 'll find , but they might be more up to date than Mike |
| 16 | The reality could not be more down to earth and straightforward , though there is much more to this player than meets the eye . |
| 17 | When the smoke clears Pain Teens turn out to be more down to earth , a punky bar band who occasionally stray into territory that can best be described as extra terrestrial . |
| 18 | ‘ They 'd just be straight through to Dad , if they took any notice of you . |
| 19 | Towards evening , Ian thought that he had better make certain that everything was in order , before the Colonel returned , and telephoned his friend : ‘ Now Ian , everything is just as fine as it should be ; you can tell the Colonel that his good lady will be well out to sea by now . ’ |
| 20 | With the publication of Slate a guide to the Llanberis area slate quarries , Snowdonia is now only missing two volumes in order to be relatively up to date in guidebook coverage terms . |
| 21 | This has implications for advanced training of students in techniques relevant to modern industrial processes , it severely limits the ability of lecturing staff to be fully up to date with new technologies and it limits the ability to provide ‘ state-of-the-art ’ technology and training at tertiary level for both indigenous and multinational companies . |
| 22 | While it is not possible to be completely up to date , the user should not buy models with in-built obsolescence . |
| 23 | She hoped his maps were more up to date and accurate than the one she had bought at the newsstand . |
| 24 | The Lowsons were reckoned to be very good farmers and they were very up to date . |
| 25 | As I understand it , GPs refer patients to individual consultants , usually to the older , more experienced man who may be slowing down , rather than to the younger , inexperienced newcomer who is right up to date with the latest hi-tech mod. con. , but is afforded scant opportunity to increase his experience . |
| 26 | It 's only up to Christmas . |
| 27 | ‘ I think he 's finally out to lunch . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it 's just down to maturity . |
| 29 | I can think of no other person in the Anti-Apartheid Movement who knows more and is more up to date on the current situation in South Africa . |
| 30 | What it can offer will be illustrated in case studies below , but can be summed up as a general information carrier , providing instant access to a variety of information which is more up to date than printed sources an educational service , providing information on new technology , higher education , careers , educational developments and new educational products a gateway service , providing access to remote databases such as ECCTIS ( see below ) a service providing access to other viewdata systems via Bulletin ( W.M. ) , Monitel a mailbox facility , allowing electronic communication between schools and other users and providing contact points for school librarians and teachers a software service providing telesoftware and enabling users to obtain access to software via Prestel Education and Micronet a microviewdata service , allowing users to create their own databases through Prestel |