Example sentences of "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 AMIDST THE wild-ish scenes , L7 are delightfully down to earth .
4 ‘ We would like to see qualified people who are technically up to date . ’
5 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 .
6 A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions .
7 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 ’ .
8 Even after a period when interest rates were higher than we would have liked , 39 mortgage payers are still up to date .
9 They are still down to earth but holy as well .
10 First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter .
11 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 .
12 Timman and Speelman , without time-outs , are now up to game number seven .
13 We are closer now to war than to peace . ’
14 The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism .
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