Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are determined to give up smoking , you are already off to a good start . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 're right up to a point , ’ agrees Friday . |
| 3 | And they 're right up to a point . |
| 4 | Since this release the Toms have followed up with the equally impressive ‘ Ruff Disco EP ’ from Nature Boy and are now up to a healthy six releases . |
| 5 | These examples have been chosen not because they are necessarily typical or representative but because they illustrate interesting practices which are now underway to a greater or lesser extent both across different areas of adult education , ( Local Education Authority , mainstream provision , Further Education colleges , the Responsible Bodies ) and outside the formal boundaries of adult education ( an employment project , and the Trades Union Congress Centres ) . |
| 6 | We are now back to a situation where industry is both poacher and gamekeeper " . |
| 7 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 8 | And the good news is that you could be almost back to a non-smoker 's risk level within a few years . |
| 9 | In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot . |
| 10 | In the afternoon we went to a barbecue at our son 's house , and then , after a shower and a rest , we were off again to a buffet and reception in the town hall . |
| 11 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 12 | The cheer that went up when it was realized that everyone was safely back almost made Grimma forget that they were safely back to a very unsafe place . |
| 13 | No the erm none of your papers to the committee concentrated on the the compensation er proposals from the Good report , and as you know it 's a scheme er which is proposed to be restric restricted to losses ari arising from fraud , theft and intentional misappropriation of assets and is just up to a limit of ninety per cent . |
| 14 | The appeal is already off to a flying start with around £100,000 already guaranteed , over £80,000 from a major sponsor , Walter Scott and Partners , and £15,000 from local authorities . |
| 15 | It 's not up to a writer to say whether a book works or not , but the point is that you can have good ideas and write bad novels from them ! |
| 16 | want this , and it 's not up to a man to decide what happens . |
| 17 | If he treats her from the beginning like a woman , elderly perhaps , but still entitled to every courtesy and consideration and some of his undivided attention , and if she treats him with affection and interest , voicing her pride in his achievements , and turning to him for advice on various matters , their relationship is usually off to a good start . |
| 18 | The A34 just south of Newbury is still down to a single lane due to the roadworks there , between the Swan roundabout and Sandalford roundabout and the A41 London road in Bicester has roadworks by the level crossing , temporary traffic lights there , expect some congestion which is reasonably bad at the moment , but it is beginning to clear in both directions . |
| 19 | The A forty-one though , at the Banbury spur is still down to a single lane between the junction with the A forty-six Longbridge Island and the A four five two , Grey 's Mallory Island , that 's for M forty construction work . |
| 20 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |
| 21 | Their success is partly down to a front three of David Hopper , the Australian prop who had a spell at Leicester ; Richard Wareham , the former Leicester and England Under-21 international , and Karl Ashfield . |
| 22 | er But you know , that 's a long way off , that , that 's probably up to a year away . |
| 23 | The graphics in 256 colour mode are pretty good , and the ground detail is also up to a high standard . |
| 24 | Sir George Robey 240 Seven Sisters Rd N4 ( 263 4581 ) Named after an old musical hero , located opposite the old Rainbow , the venerable old rock institution which is now home to a religious sect . |
| 25 | An aria sparked off the Belgian revolution , and the Monnaie , where it all began , is now home to an excellent opera company . |
| 26 | The line-up is now down to a five-piece , guitarist Angelo Bruschini having quit the group less than a month ago . |
| 27 | However , they are taking heart that it is now back to a comfortable 250 per cent . |
| 28 | However , they are taking heart that it is now back to a comfortable 250 per cent . |
| 29 | It is currently home to a family of Choco Indians , their head a middle-aged farmer known by the local people as William . |
| 30 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |