Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So really man 's costume changed very little , and in fact , apart of the cut of the jacket , and the type of hat you wore , it carried on right up to the present day . |
| 2 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 3 | In 1908 the goods became a regular all-the- year-round service and remained so right up to 1951 . |
| 4 | The system 's worked all right up to now . |
| 5 | In any case it was much further up to Tummelside . |
| 6 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 7 | She foraged deeper inside the box with her arm plunged in almost up to the shoulder . |
| 8 | Then you must switch up , using the pedals marked ‘ patch bank up ’ and ‘ down ’ , to bank 1.2 , 1.3 and so on up to 1.8 . |
| 9 | Throughout the long , hot summer they bloomed merrily right up to late autumn , while common or garden types like antirrhinum and nemesia wilted under the semi-tropical conditions . |
| 10 | It is not just up to women to negotiate safer sex , any more than it is just up to men . |
| 11 | What is required , Locke argues , is that the law of nature be embodied in a set of known and established laws that there be an ind in short that it 's not just up to the individual to state what the law of nature is in any particular case , you know , you 've got a set of known and established laws , you know , which do that . |
| 12 | Always there , and if he 's not sober , they 're not usually up to noticing it . |
| 13 | If they are extensively sheared or cold-worked , however , there is some improvement in shear strength , though not nearly up to the theoretical value . |
| 14 | Once the lessons began I realized that I was not nearly up to the standard of the others . |
| 15 | Because i at the top it 's not straight up to the |
| 16 | Went in this yard this place had oh lovely gates and I walked through straight up to the house and ring the bell , and it 's |
| 17 | And ‘ I 'm just about up to here with the war . |
| 18 | It 's not really up to me to judge that they are the best ever . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's not really up to me , Zambia . ’ |
| 20 | Top marks to Fender for continuing to care for us , the poverty-stricken masses , but while the Squier Hank was a nice enough guitar , we felt that the pickups and hardware were not really up to the standard of an early-to-mid '80s Squier or Tokai . |
| 21 | We often refer to the output as ‘ disposable typesetting ’ , it 's ideal for things with a short shelf life like magazines but not really up to being used for presentation material such as a company report . |
| 22 | So erm National Savings again worth , worth mentioning those erm deposit accounts not really up to much at the moment . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a young wine , not really up to drinking yet . |
| 24 | The person was older than me and he 's a bit higher up the rank than me and it 's all about it probably comes with experience he 's to stand for yourself really but it 's when you 're our age and a bit younger you do n't want to be seen to be rocking the boat if there 's something that 's going on that you do n't agree with but you 're asked to do something that you do n't want to do valid reasons you have n't got the time or it 's not really up to you to do it |
| 25 | Encouraged by the vision thus conjured up , Nutty watched the opposition with narrowed eyes , and was pleased to see that , yes , Colin Constable , for all his smart appearance , was certainly not up to Nails 's standard and not even up to Jazz 's , although better than Hoomey and herself . |
| 26 | The personal computers — bought for £15 000 , 15 months ago — are not even up to this job , said CND , and the organisation has spent the past year trying to exchange the system . |
| 27 | The book was well received by the Lancet and British Medical Journal , but savagely attacked by an anonymous reviewer in the Medical Times and Gazette of 1859 , who dismissed it , in a ridiculous review for which the most likely reason was personal animosity or jealousy , as ‘ a book which is not wanted [ and ] is not even up to the mark of the existing vade-mecums . |
| 28 | We are never ‘ not quite up to it ’ , because there is no ‘ it ’ to be quite up to . |
| 29 | Not quite up to his class I thought . ’ |
| 30 | The big doors would open for them and close on them and McCloy and the men who were ‘ not quite up to his class ' would unload them and store the cargoes here . |