Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Elsewhere , the boards are easy neither to find nor follow , but that seems to heighten the anticipation and drama of it all .
2	There is a long way to go as only 350 tonnes were collected during 1990 — but plans are already underway to gear up collection across the country .
3	Of course you should have read them in between , so you 're now up to date .
4	as if we 're here only to flesh out its game — to give it form .
5	AMIDST THE wild-ish scenes , L7 are delightfully down to earth .
6	‘ We would like to see qualified people who are technically up to date . ’
7	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 .
8	A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions .
9	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 ’ .
10	Even after a period when interest rates were higher than we would have liked , 39 mortgage payers are still up to date .
11	They are still down to earth but holy as well .
12	First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter .
13	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 .
14	Timman and Speelman , without time-outs , are now up to game number seven .
15	We are closer now to war than to peace . ’
16	The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism .

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