Example sentences of "[is] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's up to Social Services , and Social Services may choose , although I have got to say it 's unlikely , to register a children 's or an elderly person 's home despite the fact that we 've given advice that they should n't . |
| 2 | Time 's up for greedy banks |
| 3 | Time 's up for greedy banks |
| 4 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 5 | The pound is up at two dollars , and up at two marks , seventy eight . |
| 6 | The pounds is up at two dollars zero cents , and down at two marks seventy nine . |
| 7 | The Series 4000 Tape Array can back up a 30Gb database overnight without operator assistance , claims DG , and is up to six times faster than conventional devices . |
| 8 | At the moment the punishment is up to six months ' imprisonment and/or a £2,000 fine . |
| 9 | In the east it is up to 16 times more acid . |
| 10 | Officials say about 1.4 tonnes of rhino horn stockpiled , but conservationists claim the real figure is up to 10 tonnes . |
| 11 | I have noticed , once the fish have begun feeding and I have set up a steady rhythm with the swimfeeder , that the crucial time for getting bites is up to thirty seconds after the ‘ feeder has hit the surface . |
| 12 | Gram for gram it is up to 200 times sweeter than sugar and on average three times sweeter than aspartame . |
| 13 | On the northern Hebrides slope the sediment apron is up to 200 metres thick and is composed largely of an amalgamated sequence of mound-shaped mass-flow deposits . |
| 14 | Er er that that o o order , order , it 's a very good question er but I fear not that it is up to individual members themselves to exercise some restraint and to and to u order , order , and to use the procedures of this house properly and correctly and not to abuse them . |
| 15 | ANL organisers say it is up to individual members whether they take to the streets to fight racism , but Safina Hussain has little doubt about what action is needed . |
| 16 | Ultimately it is up to individual councils to decide who they are going to levy charges upon for the collection of waste . |
| 17 | After only half an hour we can tack left and right — a must in general , as going downwind puts the canopy between you and the way ahead giving you no chance of avoiding rocks and ruts — so that we can move almost anywhere in an arc that is up to 45 degrees on either side of the wind . |
| 18 | It is up to moral agents to decide how moral patients should be treated ; since animals , infants , and imbeciles lack self-consciousness . |
| 19 | The National Curriculum has given the basis , it is up to effective teachers to use their professional skills to translate this into a worthwhile and meaningful experience for each of their pupils . |
| 20 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 21 | It is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology , has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed . |
| 22 | In Kent the coastal water is up to three metres higher than it should be . |
| 23 | Could you possibly find out what Chad Channing , sexy ex-drummer with NIRVANA , is up to these days ? |
| 24 | It is up to 50 feet high , overhanging throughout and wide enough to allow 15 or more teams to operate at one time . |
| 25 | The Renoir NT is up to 12 times faster than the fastest VGA with resolutions of 1280x1024 in 16 colour mode and 1024X 768 in 256 colour mode … |
| 26 | It is up to social workers and the legal system to find ways of supporting rather than hindering parents and children in the difficult task of building themselves into a new family . |
| 27 | Senior commission officials say that it is up to national governments to get a move on . |
| 28 | It is up to local authorities , but I believe the extra grant , the extra spending permission , means that a good quality education can be delivered to children in Wales er without it in any way being jeopardised by these proposals and I would illustrate later on in my speech that local government does have considerable flexibility to spend wisely and well and it has resources at its disposal to do a good job . |
| 29 | She says it is up to local authorities to ensure voluntary groups do not miss out . |