Example sentences of "be [adv] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 2 | now we 're on to matters arising . |
| 3 | Fireman , we 're on to firemen now , what , why do policemen , what do policemen go to the houses for ? |
| 4 | They are up to 3ins ( 7½cms ) long and l½ins ( 4cms ) wide . |
| 5 | The tuberous rootstock , up to 4ins ( 10cms ) long , is cylindrical and bears a rosette of leaves which are up to 12ins ( 30cms ) long and 3ins ( 71½–8cms ) wide . |
| 6 | The dark green leaves , which are narrow , ribbon-like , almost like Vallisneria spiralis , are up to 12ins ( 30cms ) long , with a prominent midrib and many lateral veins , and taper to a point . |
| 7 | The leaf-stalks are up to 8ins ( 20cms ) long and tough . |
| 8 | The leaves growing submerged are up to 8ins ( 20cms ) long and 6ins ( 16cms ) broad , light green , translucent , deeply heart-shaped and crinkled . |
| 9 | By this time , some are up to 14″ — but because the original outlay on stock did n't break the bank , Ken can offer them remarkably reasonably-priced . |
| 10 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 11 | We are back to trousers , hats and no hair at all . ’ |
| 12 | And the next thing I could be on to drugs , you know er , putting heroin in me arm , I could be doing anything . |
| 13 | One of the mistakes we make is to imagine that if something is harmless or beneficial to us it must automatically be so to cats . |
| 14 | It th will then be down to goals scored . |
| 15 | Mr Wilkie , who worked in the Royal Army Educational Corps for 17 years , said : ‘ In some ways I can understand what Grampian Enterprise is doing because these days everything seems to be down to numbers . |
| 16 | It would be up to officers to decide what was dangerous and whether to discourage it . |
| 17 | It will be up to trusts to decide whether to pay for training and permit time off for it . |
| 18 | It would show whether the US and the Soviet Union really had a role to play in Europe and it would be up to Germans themselves to work out their international posture . |
| 19 | It has to be said however that the presbytery , presbytery clerks er write their own agenda for these meetings er for these conferences and er it would be up to presbyteries to instruct their clerks that that had to go on their agenda . |
| 20 | For , of course , no matter what it decides , it will still have to comprise a desirable process for the market makers and it will still be up to investors to risk putting their money into the companies concerned . |
| 21 | Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ? |
| 22 | ‘ They must also provide health and safety training , and it will be up to individuals to point out their own needs or problems . ’ |
| 23 | It will be up to councils to decide how to keep — Of course it will . |
| 24 | It will be up to councils to decide how to keep — |
| 25 | It will be up to councils to decide how to keep information about people who are liable to pay the council tax . |
| 26 | There will be up to places available daily , from 9.30am-12.30pm Monday to Friday , except for Wednesdays . |
| 27 | The traditional way involves a public offer for sale with a published prospectus and listing on the London Stock Exchange ; distribution tends to be mainly to investors resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 29 | Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives . |
| 30 | In the North the shrine of St Cuthbert at Durham was second only to that of St Thomas , although his appeal seems to have been particularly to northerners ( 209 , pp.28–30 ) . |