Example sentences of "be up to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But does this mean that our friends from Dixieland — the Intelligence Service lived south of the river ‘ — are going to give us a hint of what they 're up to these days ? ’ |
2 | you know erm daily , just so we know when somebody does appear , if they 're , you know , if we , you know , wanted a chat with them or , you know , to see what they 're up to these days that yeah but I w er yeah yeah . |
3 | We 're up to 81 subscribers right now , which is pretty good . |
4 | There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems . |
5 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
6 | The vast majority of these incomplete schools are in rural areas where classes are also large — the teachers ' union COLPROSUMAH claims that in some rural schools there are up to 120 children in a classroom . |
7 | These moves would not disgrace a HVS climb were it not for the fact that two sets of in situ threads protect them perfectly : a good testing ground to see if you are up to greater things . |
8 | Comparison of present rates of denudation and orogeny allowed Schumm ( 1963a ) to deduce that the production of a planation surface could take between 10 and 110 million years and to show that present rates of orogeny are up to 10 times faster than rates of denudation . |
9 | * Aluminium levels in some brands of " fresh " and " reconstituted " whole orange juices are up to 10 times higher than levels in local tap water , researchers in Bristol have found . |
10 | Ten bit positions are sufficient for most words ( 83% of words in a lexicon of 70,000 words are up to 10 letters long ) , so for words 10 letters long , bits 9 and 10 are set , and for words more than 10 letters long , only bit 10 is set . |
11 | There are up to 250,000 sufferers in Britain today — about 20,000 of them in hospital at any one time . |
12 | The arms are up to 7 times the disk diameter . |
13 | Harris says the 88110 Symmetric Superscalar microprocessors are up to five times faster than the 88100/200 combinations in the Night Hawk 4000 and with secondary cache are expected to achieve 70 SPECmarks per microprocessor . |
14 | Typical widths are up to 3 metres with a pallet run length of up to 25 metres . |
15 | There are up to twenty-nine teeth in the upper jaw and twenty-five or twenty-six in the lower . |
16 | The massive red sandstone walls of this great fortress are up to 20 feet thick , and you can still sense the defensive strength of the 12th century keep . |
17 | The walls of red sandstone are up to 20 feet thick , surrounding the strong 12th century keep . |
18 | Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials . |
19 | Researchers at Leicester University are monitoring 400 water sports enthusiasts , who they believe are up to three times more likely to suffer viral disorders than the rest of the population . |
20 | The Master Level Index is the main entry point to the entire system , below which there are up to three levels of functional refinement . |
21 | Wind turbines ( above ) are up to 90 metres high . |
22 | Killer whales are up to ten metres in length and can easily be identified by their black — and white colour and the high dorsal fin of the males . |
23 | Is er has what 's his name , the angry man been up to any antics lately ? |
24 | it 's probably , it , it may of been up to three years |
25 | 1 A filename can be up to 8 characters long ; 2 A filename may not contain spaces and most punctuation marks , except hyphens , round brackets and a few others ; 3 A filename may be typed in using either lower or upper case letters ; 4 Every file on the same disk must have a different filename ; 5 Every file , wherever it is stored , should have a different filename . |
26 | Term of loans from the IDA are more favourable than those demanded by the IBRD and can be up to fifty years with repayments deferred for the first ten years , with no interest charges . |
27 | Forces that can be up to five times your body weight on each stride . |
28 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
29 | The assessment comment can be up to 10 lines long . |
30 | The comment can be up to 10 lines long . |