Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am besides about to be deserted by my husband , who is to go this next week to Rome to prepare the way for the Brownings . |
| 2 | Taking one thing with another : body temperature , ambient temperature , the fact that Saturn is in the ascendant and it 's Sunday , I 'd say he 's been dead up to eighteen hours , probably not less than fourteen , that puts it between nine and one last night . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been right up to the fence several times ! |
| 4 | Oliver grew more angry , not less , saying there had been rather more to it than supper , had n't there ? |
| 5 | It is at the sentencing stage where formal strategies are most often to be found . |
| 6 | As for the questions of how far responsibility is to be allocated between us and our tempters , how much temptation human beings can ‘ reasonably ’ be expected to stand — these are obviously not to be answered by mere mortals . |
| 7 | He 'd have been better off to of crawled back down there and apologise |
| 8 | Rennie House ground floor post room , loading bay and print room are all about to be re-planned including a new corridor that by-passes the loading bay . |
| 9 | However , they are less obviously to be seen in the academic community as a whole than in the discrete disciplinary sub-cultures , where they take different forms ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 10 | His room was the most interesting I had been in up to then . |
| 11 | As with all our Go-As-You-Please Fly-Drive packages , your exact route and itinerary are entirely up to you . |
| 12 | however , however , however you judge these things are entirely up to those who are right and those who are receiving them , but I thought she was very good , she wrote some poems about us really |
| 13 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
| 14 | These offers are open only to readers in the UK until 23 November 1992 . |
| 15 | Staff whose employment is recognized as being temporary are also debarred from membership of any occupational pension schemes their employer operates , most of which are open only to workers who had satisfied a minimum service requirement — usually one year or more . |
| 16 | Many historians of English seem to have shared the attitude of Oliphant ( above ) and have therefore been inclined to think that apparently non-standard linguistic forms are somehow not to be taken seriously as evidence for ‘ genuine ’ linguistic change . |
| 17 | Elsewhere , the boards are easy neither to find nor follow , but that seems to heighten the anticipation and drama of it all . |
| 18 | Armoured personnel carriers rumble down streets that are normally home to Mercedes and convertible BMWs . |
| 19 | But I am not here to bandy words with you , ’ Guy continued , ruthlessly forestalling another angry retort . |
| 20 | — 3:11 : " I am not up to the job . " |
| 21 | ‘ I am just about to . |
| 22 | While civil servants and directors wade through the legal quagmire of whether to record unmet needs , many staff who have to implement the policy are already up to their necks in it . |
| 23 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |
| 24 | ‘ Tipperary are already through to the knock-out stages of the league and ca n't be caught , but mindful of their pride and arrogance they wo n't be doing us too many favours . ’ |
| 25 | If you are determined to give up smoking , you are already off to a good start . |
| 26 | There is a long way to go as only 350 tonnes were collected during 1990 — but plans are already underway to gear up collection across the country . |
| 27 | The major purpose in outlining the roles within the Rowdies group has been to demonstrate that football fans of this type are not simply to be viewed as a disordered bunch of maniacs . |
| 28 | ‘ We are not here to be dumped on , Lucker . |
| 29 | If people have very little choice in matters of housing then the details of planning and the execution of policy become very important , and are not just to be left to the ‘ experts ’ . |
| 30 | Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life . |