Example sentences of "are [adv] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMIDST THE wild-ish scenes , L7 are delightfully down to earth . |
| 2 | ‘ We would like to see qualified people who are technically up to date . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Even after a period when interest rates were higher than we would have liked , 39 mortgage payers are still up to date . |
| 7 | They are still down to earth but holy as well . |
| 8 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Timman and Speelman , without time-outs , are now up to game number seven . |
| 11 | The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism . |