Example sentences of "be up to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 2 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
| 3 | It 's estimated there are up to a thousand homeless people in Swindon … and the Breakfast Club is seen as one way to make life more tolerable … |
| 4 | There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks . |
| 5 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 6 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
| 7 | These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short . |
| 8 | ‘ Meanwhile , until we know what the Kamalians are up to the more people we have on the job the better . |
| 9 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 10 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 11 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 12 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | At any given time during term there could be up to a thousand people on the compound . |
| 15 | A comparable dry desert area of the arctic might yield a similar selection of cryptogams , but there would probably be up to a dozen species of flowering plants scattered among them . |
| 16 | " Many more schemes are due to be completed in the next few years , so that by 1995 virtually all our bathing waters will be up to the required standard " , Trippier claimed . |
| 17 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Speaking to MEPs on Jan. 21 Poos declared : " There is a structural weakness in existing political co-operation and it will be up to the intergovernmental conference [ opened in December 1990 — see p. 37905 ] to tackle and reverse that " . |
| 20 | If anything does happen , it 'll be up to the three of you to deal with it . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 25 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 26 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 27 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 28 | They reckon it 's up to a million now . ’ |
| 29 | It 's up to every one of us to Lend a Hand and find it . |
| 30 | That 's somebody who 's up to no good … |