Example sentences of "the [noun] be [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , ’ said Liz , ‘ I 'd better go and see what the butlers are up to . |
| 3 | ‘ Take a good rest ’ — well the heart was back to pounding instead of its previous maniacal thump , so time to press on . |
| 4 | The difference was that although the three ploughs were alleged to have been laid up , ‘ the houses are up to now standing and occupied ’ ; precisely what Greville had done is obscure , but whatever it was it had undoubtedly achieved a dramatic increase in productivity without uprooting the tenants . |
| 5 | Make sure the plans are up to date and include all buildings . |
| 6 | The decision was up to me . |
| 7 | Health Minister Brian Mawhinney , speaking at Stoke Mandeville Hospital he said the decision was down to the doctors . |
| 8 | ‘ So what d' you think the Admiral was up to ? |
| 9 | The Smallwoods were off to Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | So the fight is on to save ship building on Tyneside . |
| 11 | In this year the course was back to full length and the closure of Peppard helped swell the membership , especially of the Artisans . |
| 12 | Being higher than the policemen on the ground , I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 15 | In the more recent squad of 35 the figure was up to four after Sale 's David Baldwin had been brought in as cover for Dooley . |
| 16 | The annual budget of NAEP was once as much as 7.1 million dollars ( about £3.5 million pounds ) , although by 1982 the figure was down to 3.88 million dollars . |
| 17 | But this year , the figure was down to 2,558 , so since the general election , unemployment has fallen by 28.7 per cent . |
| 18 | By 1979 , the figure was down to 367,000 . |
| 19 | As a place to observe what the DEA was up to in Nicosia , Coleman found the Eurame Trading Company ideal , but from his very first day on the job , he had an uncomfortable feeling that the same might be true for the opposition . |
| 20 | And you do know that the data is up to date ( the first instruction given to students when studying bits of weather paper at a number of airfields these days should be to check the date on the top ) . |
| 21 | Again , this all helps with cementing the initial relationship and if the first impression is a good one , the practitioner is off to a flying start , which could help if there are difficulties at a later stage with the transaction . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd just come home from a cruise and the mail was up to my knees . |
| 23 | There was also the precedent established by the British when the ARB refused to validate the US certificate of airworthiness of the Boeing 707 in its original form and the manufacturers had to design and fit an additional dorsal fin to improve its ‘ Dutch roll ’ characteristics before Dai Davis , the ARB chief test pilot , was satisfied that the aircraft was up to UK certification standards . |
| 24 | He 's a highly talented rider with a hunger for success and if the Yamaha is up to it — and I 've no doubt that it is — than we could be celebrating a single figure placing tomorrow , and that really would be something . |
| 25 | It 's interesting to find out what the opposition 's up to . ’ |
| 26 | You may have to tell guests in advance , ‘ We 're cutting the cake and having the speeches in the dining room at half past , ’ then send the chief bridesmaid into the gardens if it is a fine day , and the other bridesmaids around the house , to inform stragglers that the speeches are about to be made . |
| 27 | The corporate power-brokers who dominated Los Angeles a decade ago when the Olympics were about to be staged — the oil moguls , the aerospace kings , the old movie-studio emperors — have now mostly left the scene : their firms broken up , in the hands of bureaucratic managers or wholly owned by foreigners . |
| 28 | Apart from performances which have left the team knocking on relegation 's door , revelations on Robert Maxwell 's death that the club was up to four million pounds in debt , stunned the terraces . |
| 29 | After running the engine for a few miles , the gauge is up to the red . |
| 30 | But now that the GLC was about to be abolished and GLEB was in trouble , the paper , with Horsley 's enthusiastic support , decided to move to Manchester . |