Example sentences of "be [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking one thing with another : body temperature , ambient temperature , the fact that Saturn is in the ascendant and it 's Sunday , I 'd say he 's been dead up to eighteen hours , probably not less than fourteen , that puts it between nine and one last night . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been right up to the fence several times ! |
| 3 | His room was the most interesting I had been in up to then . |
| 4 | As with all our Go-As-You-Please Fly-Drive packages , your exact route and itinerary are entirely up to you . |
| 5 | however , however , however you judge these things are entirely up to those who are right and those who are receiving them , but I thought she was very good , she wrote some poems about us really |
| 6 | — 3:11 : " I am not up to the job . " |
| 7 | While civil servants and directors wade through the legal quagmire of whether to record unmet needs , many staff who have to implement the policy are already up to their necks in it . |
| 8 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |
| 9 | There are a number of members who are not up to the job . |
| 10 | Individually , we are not up to the task of trying to handle our own uniqueness . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean the boys are not up to it ? ’ |
| 12 | If they are not up to standard then the supplier is in breach of his contract with you and you are entitled to your money back . |
| 13 | Women are not given the opportunities because very often they are not up to the job . |
| 14 | And the reason they are not up to the job is that those in charge of hiring them are mostly men . |
| 15 | He had not said , Frankly , Peter , you are not up to being Archdeacon , he had instead emphasized the need for someone from outside the diocese , for someone with ecumenical experience in urban work , for someone accustomed to ministerial care . |
| 16 | ‘ Many zoos , particularly in the southern member-states , are not up to adequate standards , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Pulling them together , we may see that in marriage in Britain today , while freedom of choice makes for great potential satisfaction in the marital relationship as such , at the same time it makes for some instability if the satisfactions are not up to expectations . |
| 18 | A general degree is sometimes seen as an alternative for students who are not up to honours standard ; this is largely though not entirely the case with the Scottish ordinary degree . |
| 19 | First of all , if the records are not up to date — and it is difficult to see how they could be up to date during high level activity — the source of the information is missing . |
| 20 | The figures for Newham are dated 14 November , so I hope that we do not hear Ministers say that they are not up to date . |
| 21 | The inspections will be carried out at local level by independent inspectors who will be registered with Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , which will withdraw the registration of inspectors who are not up to standard . |
| 22 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 23 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 24 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 25 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 26 | The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards . |
| 27 | Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you 're right up to a point , ’ agrees Friday . |
| 29 | And they 're right up to a point . |
| 30 | I mean either that or they 're right up to your backside , you know , and I mean |