Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are not up to standard then the supplier is in breach of his contract with you and you are entitled to your money back . |
| 2 | The inspections will be carried out at local level by independent inspectors who will be registered with Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , which will withdraw the registration of inspectors who are not up to standard . |
| 3 | First of all , if the records are not up to date — and it is difficult to see how they could be up to date during high level activity — the source of the information is missing . |
| 4 | The figures for Newham are dated 14 November , so I hope that we do not hear Ministers say that they are not up to date . |
| 5 | The Government are not about to hand out dollops of money so that inexperienced people can buy complicated equipment that they then do not know how to use . |
| 6 | Of course you should have read them in between , so you 're now up to date . |
| 7 | AMIDST THE wild-ish scenes , L7 are delightfully down to earth . |
| 8 | ‘ We would like to see qualified people who are technically up to date . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Even after a period when interest rates were higher than we would have liked , 39 mortgage payers are still up to date . |
| 13 | They are still down to earth but holy as well . |
| 14 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Timman and Speelman , without time-outs , are now up to game number seven . |
| 17 | Well somebody said to me , when I get to traffic lights instead of turning right and going through the bar I turn left and go , as if I 'm off up to North Cross . |
| 18 | The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism . |