Example sentences of "be [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 2 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 3 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 4 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 5 | On Merseyside thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and numbers of cars stolen are down to 12,992 an overall drop of nine per cent . |
| 6 | On Merseyside , thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and the number of cars stolen has fallen to 12,992 an overall drop of 9% . |
| 7 | On Merseyside thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and numbers of cars stolen are down to 12,992 an overall drop of nine per cent . |
| 8 | Already doorstep sales are down to half of total milk sales . |
| 9 | The first seven days of heavy fighting and shelling have caused a large number of casualties ; the Commando units in some instances are down to less than half strength . |
| 10 | Average hourly earnings in agriculture were nearly three-quarters of those in industry in the late 1940s ; today they are down to less than two-thirds . |
| 11 | When Dick 's lads are down to seven and a half hours which they are in the erm summertime , I mean we s the lads 'll come in I mean we ca n't pull them off now , but those lads 'll come in and clean up . |
| 12 | Right we 're on to this roll now . |
| 13 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 14 | Oh you 're down to two now |
| 15 | count them out , oh you 're down to eight now ? |
| 16 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 17 | Well if you want facts and figures on it we can give you it but I 'll tell you what it 's meant to I 'll tell you what it 's meant training service I can tell you what it 's meant to the royal dockyards which we 've got to talk about yet from thirteen thousand , in some instances you 're down to five . |
| 18 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're off to that stupid squadron . |
| 20 | WE 'RE OFF TO EURO DISNEY |
| 21 | Oh they 're up to all bloody tricks |
| 22 | Right , so after twenty seconds they 're up to full speed , and flat out , erm they 're at forty five degrees . |
| 23 | ‘ Honestly , Daddy , I do n't know what you 're up to half the time . |
| 24 | But does this mean that our friends from Dixieland — the Intelligence Service lived south of the river ‘ — are going to give us a hint of what they 're up to these days ? ’ |
| 25 | you know erm daily , just so we know when somebody does appear , if they 're , you know , if we , you know , wanted a chat with them or , you know , to see what they 're up to these days that yeah but I w er yeah yeah . |
| 26 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 27 | We 're up to 81 subscribers right now , which is pretty good . |
| 28 | We 're up to local radio and television today , if today is as good as yesterday was , I think you 'll all enjoy it . |
| 29 | Now we 're back to six people again and they 're all working for me in a very small way . |
| 30 | Otherwise we 're back to that for force-fit trian triangular approach , as evidenced on the previous view-graph . |