Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your filter is fairly powerful and should be up to the job , but I must admit that I personally prefer undergravel filtration for almost all purposes . |
| 2 | Where sexual intercourse takes place before the barrel of a gun , it seems quite appropriate that it should be up to the defence to discharge an evidential burden with respect to consent . |
| 3 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 4 | Of course , some of the LSE II 's bass response must be down to the rosewood back and sides ; the chances are the mahogany version would be toppier-sounding , but both would make equally top-notch recording guitars . |
| 5 | It must be down to the record companies . |
| 6 | To that end , I felt , it must be back to the DIY stores . |
| 7 | Erm , there 's a nomination for , for the executive committee nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety four , erm , this must be back to the County by the twenty second September , nomination for the executive committee and up to twelve members may be nominated . |
| 8 | All entries must be in to the Green Dragon Museum Theatre Yard , Stockton , by May 23 . |
| 9 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 10 | But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might |
| 11 | If anything does happen , it 'll be up to the three of you to deal with it . ’ |
| 12 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 13 | Just give you one quick smack and that 'll be through to the other side ! |
| 14 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |
| 15 | It 'll be back to the cattle trucks for the lot of us . ’ |
| 16 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 17 | After correcting , press |
| 18 | We could be back to the boom that led to the crash that lost the job that paid for the house that Jack bought . |
| 19 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 20 | Well they were usually a line of kids standing along the wall or something and one set out in the middle of the field and then you had to touch them and then you 'd be back to the wall and they had to do it . |
| 21 | However , the Government has proposed changing this so that the final decision would be up to the DoE . |
| 22 | It would be up to the courts to decide on the matter , ’ says her local trading standards officer , Mr Slater . |
| 23 | It would be up to the scientists to decide which is the viable option and which belongs to the realm of science fiction . |
| 24 | A spokesman for the Department of Health and social security said a decision to implant an artificial heart would be up to the doctor ‘ like any other replacement operation ’ . |
| 25 | The Institute has been given legal advice to the effect that there is a possibility that the defence of qualified or absolute privilege might be available , but it would be up to the courts to decide and the only way of finding out would be a test case . |
| 26 | After that it would be up to the German socialists to respond , pressing their own Government to adopt positions convergent with the emergent consensus among the Allies . |
| 27 | He would not dare ask for money ; instead it would be up to the gentleman to raise the matter and to give payment when he deemed suitable . |
| 28 | ‘ It will probably take a few more days before we know the source , but it would be up to the Disciplinary Committee to decide whether it will be made public , ’ he said . |
| 29 | It would be up to the psychologist to decide whether or not there was any mental impairment to their full understanding . ’ |
| 30 | He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players . |