Example sentences of "was [vb pp] up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I also felt that the guitar became a different instrument when it was turned up to maximum and fully distorted — it was no longer a polyphonic instrument , really . |
| 2 | Her narrow shoulders and long , slim neck had barely seen the sun , and gleamed white and translucent against the dark fabric ; her small-featured , impassive face was made up to salon standard . |
| 3 | ‘ Mainly cooks and cripples , ’ he said cheerfully , and the family hoped that this would mean that he stayed in England , but when he returned to London after his leave the battalion was made up to strength and moved to Howick in Scotland . |
| 4 | Three times this was done , and then the sheet was drawn up to heaven again . |
| 5 | The supply side of the market was opened up to competition , but on the demand side direct consumer choice was limited to the choice of a GP . |
| 6 | Mark , 26 , is a former Army medic who was called up to man a field hospital during the Gulf War . |
| 7 | Her white dress had fallen off the shoulder nearest him , her skirt was rucked up to mid-thigh , her hair rippled silver . |
| 8 | For the last five partial responders interferon therapy was prolonged up to week 38 . |
| 9 | That worked very well indeed er over a period of what twelve to eighteen months , the whole street , which was mainly residential , was brought up to standard up to a higher standard , simply by providing new fronts . |
| 10 | Romanticism was brought up to date in a different way by the Scottish painter Joan Eardley ( 1921–63 ) , whose paintings and drawings are at the Mercury Gallery , 26 Cork Street , London W1 ( until May 9 ) . |
| 11 | I was brought up to work hard for my country . |
| 12 | I was brought up to work in the garden with my father ; we had to grow vegetables ourselves because money was tight . |
| 13 | Leucanthemella serotina is what I was brought up to call Chrysanthemum ulginosum , the so-called moon daisy of Hungary , where it is often found growing in damp places . |
| 14 | ‘ My father and Edwin Garland were very close friends , so much so that I was brought up to regard Beryl and Francis as cousins . ’ |
| 15 | Each pool was divided into two subgroups and one saliva subpool was titrated down to pH 7.20 with 0.1 N HCl and one oesophageal fluid subpool was titrated up to pH 8.20 with 0.2 N NaOH . |
| 16 | Very little food was imported up to World War I , and even after 1918 imports of foodstuffs accounted for a much smaller proportion of total imports than in some other industrial nations , particularly Britain . |
| 17 | In order , therefore , to make absolutely certain that the manufactured parts were always ready and on hand , and further , that there was a sufficiency of raw materials and parts in all stages of completion , some form of stocktaking was necessary , and this was kept up to date day-to-day , and even hour-by-hour . |
| 18 | The Empress was held up to obloquy as an empty and frivolous woman while the Emperor was denounced as a degenerate debauchee , their only common interests being a desire for power and extravagant spectacle . |