Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 2 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 3 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 4 | Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) . |
| 5 | My parents were pointing up to a beam of light and saying ‘ Dumbo ’ . |
| 6 | In the final analysis the need for a swift response to an immediate housing shortage after the war painted almost inevitably to a large-scale local authority housing programme , rather than face a period of delay while housing associations were geared up to the task . |
| 7 | It was still in the days when airmen 's tunics were buttoned UP to the neck . |
| 8 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 9 | Large boats are roped up to the quayside . |
| 10 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 11 | Also , if bus stations were brought up to the standards , with pleasant lounge cafés , attendants to look after luggage and protection for passengers from fumes and the weather , then even the maniacal travelling executive might be tempted to use public transport . |
| 12 | As goods are passed up to a division , the transfer price may include elements to cover profit and fixed costs . |
| 13 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 14 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 15 | Specified items are covered up to the amount shown on the Home Underwriting advice . |
| 16 | Smaller practitioners are fed up to the back teeth with all forms of regulation , and audit regulation in particular . |
| 17 | WIRRAL rail passengers are facing up to a Sunday on the buses this weekend . |
| 18 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 19 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 20 | And a life below stairs is opened up to the public . |
| 21 | The Provisionals replied by appointing a ‘ security officer ’ to each brigade to inspect buildings to be bombed for compensation and to arrange with the owners that the security arrangements be brought up to the standards specified in the government regulations . |
| 22 | The CIT 's members are standing up to the recession and keeping close to their customers and associates . |
| 23 | Their skirts were drawn up to the crotch , the heels high , the legs bare , the skin chafed by the cold . |
| 24 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |
| 25 | Also , unsecured creditors will often be deterred from seeking a winding-up since such creditors would readily appreciate the futility of such action where the company 's assets were charged up to the hilt . |
| 26 | Volunteers were wired up to an EEG ( electroencephalograph ) machine called a ‘ Mind Mirror ’ which records brainwave patterns . |
| 27 | Volunteers were wired up to an EEG machine which records skin responses as well as brainwave patterns . |
| 28 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 29 | Bricks , old tiles , new tiles , quarry tiles , Mexican , French or Spanish tiles , ceramic tiles , slate and even marble facing all look spectacular — provided , of course , that you are prepared to put up with the clattering noise from chairs being pulled up to the table and pushed back . |
| 30 | At clipping time the sheep were driven in and penned , and as they were clipped , the fleeces were thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery and put at once into the wool store . |