Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adv prt] to [art] " 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 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | right erm could I just check something else which was not mentioned er is that is it when you have opened these two Homeworks shops that you 'll be up to a hundred and seventy eight |
| 13 | If anything does happen , it 'll be up to the three of you to deal with it . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Just give you one quick smack and that 'll be through to the other side ! |
| 16 | Most international staff in Sarajevo would be evacuated because the risks of staying on were too great , Mr Land said , adding : ‘ We 'll be down to a skeleton staff by the weekend . ’ |
| 17 | Most international staff in Sarajevo would be evacuated because the risks of staying on were too great , Mr Land said , adding : ‘ We 'll be down to a skeleton staff by the weekend . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | It 'll be back to the cattle trucks for the lot of us . ’ |
| 20 | I mean we 'll be back to the scenario that we were fighting for three years ago . |
| 21 | After correcting , press |
| 22 | Experts warned last night that it could be up to a year before he is returned to Jersey . |
| 23 | At any given time during term there could be up to a thousand people on the compound . |
| 24 | The implication for the client of finding a title to attendance allowance and the severe disability premium or invalid care allowance could be up to an extra £78.60 and is therefore an alternative option to residential care . |
| 25 | MIX and Max with Mel and you could be on to a video winner as we give away more than £2,500worth of Gibson tapes . |
| 26 | We could be back to the boom that led to the crash that lost the job that paid for the house that Jack bought . |
| 27 | But the basic uncertainty in the mother may well transmit itself to the child and the relationship between the two of them could be off to a shaky start . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In an andesite , the phenocrysts may be up to a centimetre across ; the groundmass ( or jam ) is extremely fine-grained , and is often glassy , even in the centres of flows . |