Example sentences of "come up to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | after one second it 's come up to two thirds of V. |
| 2 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 3 | However , for databases which fail to come up to that standard a new right to prevent unfair extraction is proposed . |
| 4 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 5 | Yes , I mean it 's not the whole of the market , admittedly , and we are still encouraging our own countrymen to take a holiday in this country erm but if one 's blunt about it , yes , it 's erm a large sector of the market and one that is , one we 've got to get back to come up to last year 's levels . |
| 6 | the real feeling and we feel we 've got to come up to some sort of a standard . |
| 7 | Buildings are not listed lightly : they have to come up to strict standards to qualify . |
| 8 | The policeman came up to Soapy . |
| 9 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 10 | My dad was once testing me on my biology and we came up to these films and the subject of drugs and I said just , you know , just as a joke and I thought he would just laugh it off , I said have you done any ? |
| 11 | They originally lived in the home counties but came up to this area two years ago . |
| 12 | Well , it 's just coming up to eleven o'clock , who have n't we heard from , er , right , you 've been very very quiet there . |
| 13 | And erm the erm your view is completely blocked altogether when you 're coming up to that roundabout , as you know they come up from erm Southfield Road and Divinity Road which comes up on to that roundabout , and erm I think it 's very very dangerous . |
| 14 | Especially coming up , co , just coming up to Salisbury , coming up to all those roundabouts . |
| 15 | Yeah , hold on what am I , yeah he 's coming up to fifty yeah , forty nine |
| 16 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 17 | Coming up to two . |
| 18 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 19 | Michael 's still a little bit small , well he 's coming up to four now in May , so , but er |
| 20 | Com coming up to four . |
| 21 | The time was coming up to nine o'clock , and shopkeepers were making ready to open their doors . |
| 22 | A reminder you 're listening to B B C Radio Oxford and Talking Sport , just coming up to thirteen minutes to six . |
| 23 | So it 's just coming up to five to that 's okay . |
| 24 | Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her . |
| 25 | You 're listening to B B C Radio Nottingham news it 's coming up to five past one . |
| 26 | Again , some feedback on the flip chart erm let's give you fifteen minutes for that so it 's coming up to five past twenty past |
| 27 | What we 're gon na do now , it 's just coming up to twenty past three , so we 'll take a tea break and then after tea we 'll come back and we 'll spend about an hour or so looking at identifying trainees . |
| 28 | It 's just coming up to twenty past three we 'll take fifteen minutes . |
| 29 | I mean it 's coming up to twenty past |
| 30 | Before we do before we do given that it 's just coming up to ten thirty could I ask somebody to propose suspension of standing orders . |