Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |
| 2 | These offered up to 10s. per week sickness benefit plus the services of a doctor in return for a contribution of between 4d. and 8d. per week . |
| 3 | Er a chap er reported to our lads that there was a suspicious , something suspicious wired up to his back door . |
| 4 | It all added up to a premonition of tragedy for Charles . |
| 5 | Suddenly , Constance realised that she actually was very tired — but not too tired to notice with pleasure the warm wood panelling , the Turkey-red stair carpet and the clean smell of polish which all added up to an atmosphere of richness and opulence quite foreign to her mother 's sparse house in Northumberland . |
| 6 | The shadow on the step , the wind in his eye , the very fact that Fly was here when he never came into the city on weekdays : it all added up to something he could n't quite catch hold of . |
| 7 | All added up to subsistence farming in its most rudimentary form , with minimal trading and scarcely any money circulating , so that the assessors ' valuation of livestock — and household effects — may well have been frankly notional . |
| 8 | It all added up to an organisation , but what organisation ? |
| 9 | It all added up to a hotel bedroom . |
| 10 | It all added up to the fact that below Silas 's cool exterior there was warmth and compassion for others . |
| 11 | Mind you we 've got loads of staff nurses as well and they 're not all made up to . |
| 12 | After deciding that oak would be best for the job , it was then to work , carefully measuring the arch and getting it all drawn up to scale . |
| 13 | But that 's what we 're all brought up to be . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 're all dressed up to the nines ! ’ |
| 15 | He was born in Leeds in 1789 and trained as an architect , but by 1830 had taken over the fight against child abuses from Robert Owen ( q.v. ) , and conducted a vigorous campaign for a ten-hour day , which only succeeded in 1847 with the passing of the Ten Hour Bill limiting the working hours of all those aged up to eighteen . |
| 16 | Taxes were to be uniformly imposed , whereas previously the self-employed paid up to three times as much as state employees . |
| 17 | " What Spanish regime " , he enquired rhetorically , " at any time , has been more productive in carrying out its tasks and has created for the Nation , in any respect , wealth comparable to that created up to now ? " |
| 18 | So El-ahrairah called up to him and said , " What news ? " |
| 19 | The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction . |
| 20 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 21 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) has at last faced up to this in its latest World Economic Outlook . |