Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By next week there will be two rooms ready for occupation but whether I will find takers I do not know or if I will be up to providing the services required . |
| 2 | The distinctive ‘ rattle ’ at the end of the tail is formed from modified scales and increases in size by one rattle section every time the snake moults its skin , which may be up to four times a year . |
| 3 | In Amazonia , taxonomically diverse groups of angiosperms grow on the carton nests of ants , forming arboreal ‘ antgardens ’ , which may be up to 1 metre across and 2 m long . |
| 4 | This will equal half the cost of the factory , which should be up to full production of body panels by the end of next year . |
| 5 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 6 | Such caverns are available in Kent , Wiltshire , Cleveland , Humberside and Lincolnshire , The UKAEA 's report proposes that special trains with 10–12 wagons , each loaded with flasks containing drums of waste will travel on public railways between the Sellafield reprocessing plant and the waste dumps , which could be up to 400 km away . |
| 7 | The filter further added to the exposure time which could be up to 80 times that of a normal plate . |
| 8 | The filter further added to the exposure time which could be up to 80 times that of a normal plate . |
| 9 | Yet debt owed by customers , which could be up to 40 per cent of their assets , is so often left unprotected . ’ |
| 10 | Slurry is injected into a 20mm ( 0.75in ) wide groove which can be up to 60mm ( 2.3in ) deep , and on all models , the slot is opened by a pair of discs mounted on a flexible arm , a feature which is said to ensure precise depth control . |
| 11 | The suspension , springs and dampers have to be robust to cope with the greater weight of the diesel engine , which can be up to 250lb , and the greater mileage that a diesel might be expected to cover . |
| 12 | In the Indian Ocean fish are caught in gill nets , which can be up to 50 k long , and are made of synthetic fibres . |
| 13 | This is a kind of life and health insurance combined that covers replacement cost through death ( which can be up to £3000 in the case of a horse ) , theft or straying , and the cost of veterinary bills . |
| 14 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
| 15 | Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across . |
| 16 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 17 | This is made up of a twenty-four-bit field containing the overflow address plus control information , followed by the record key , which can be up to sixty-four characters in length . |
| 18 | Which can be up to ten years , providing that does n't take your service over forty years at the age of sixty or over what you would have attained had you remained in service until the age of sixty five . |
| 19 | Ti'Ko claim that this significantly increases graphics handling speeds which can be up to 18 times faster than the conventional 486 super VGA configuration . |
| 20 | Two very different types of plant are the giant redwood trees which can be up to or exceeding 100 metres in height and one celled algae in water . |
| 21 | This column allows a comment to be provided giving a reason for the rejection , which can be up to 48 printing characters long , including spaces . |
| 22 | The logical or physical name for the storage directory , which can be up to 80 characters long . |
| 23 | The nets , which can be up to 40 miles across , have also been blamed for snaring and killing thousands of sea birds , non-commercial fish and marine mammals . |
| 24 | She should be up to date with her vaccinations , and should be swabbed before going to the stud — vet 's visit plus consultation and advice , the swab , postage , lab fees — see how it adds up ? |
| 25 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 26 | right erm could I just check something else which was not mentioned er is that is it when you have opened these two Homeworks shops that you 'll be up to a hundred and seventy eight |
| 27 | You 'd take a lovely walk down the field and then suddenly you 'd be up to your knees in a bog . |
| 28 | The third is the one that we are providing — giving the governors of schools the choice of teams of inspectors , who will be up to the standards required by HMI at the centre . |
| 29 | Anyway , if Killarney decide to allow the Down Royal executive a free date we should be up to our ears in runners . |
| 30 | Otherwise we 'll be up to our necks with toffs in monocles and deer-stalkers all of 'em trailing manservants and frightening the cows and horses by blasting around in they great green Bentleys they all drive . ’ |