Example sentences of "and be [adv] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We 'll send the giants into the enchanted slumber and be off back to Gallan in the whisk of a glowworm 's tail . ’ |
| 4 | It is a network of people interested in teacher research , and is open both to teachers and other interested parties who support the aims of the group . |
| 5 | The Rockwell Nature Conservation Area is the first stage in the scheme and is already home to 60 different types of birds . |
| 6 | The area , in the north of the province , is one of the last strongholds of the grizzly bear and is also home to wolves , bald eagles and wild salmon . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 9 | Batts had his best game this season ( IMO ) and is now back to his best . |
| 10 | Holdings of around one third were common in the 1970s , but the proportion fell during the boom in equities in the 1980s and is now down to 9% . |
| 11 | Richard Snodden won the McClintoch trophy as club champion and is now down to ‘ 12 ’ , an improvement of seven shots this year . |
| 12 | Duncan , at six feet eight inches , has a devastating service , and is now off to Texas to take up a tennis scholarship . |
| 13 | One of the outbuildings , a listed dovecote , has been renovated and is now home to two splendid white doves . |
| 14 | Wanchai used to be the hostess-bar district , but it has moved up in the world and is now home to one of the colony 's classiest new hotels , The Grand Hyatt ( ) . |
| 15 | I can think of no other person in the Anti-Apartheid Movement who knows more and is more up to date on the current situation in South Africa . |
| 16 | It was very much a family restaurant with children , teenagers and grandparents all eating together and was clearly somewhere to which the locals repaired for a weekend dinner . |
| 17 | This is particularly marked in The Mysteries of Udolpho , for when Mrs Radcliffe describes the cottage in which her heroine has taken shelter , she writes of this ‘ bower of sweets ’ as though the reader stood outside it , although Emily , whose view he shares , is indoors , at her bedroom window : ‘ The cottage , which was shaded by the woods from the intenser rays of the sun , and was open only to his evening light , was covered entirely with vines , fig-trees , and jessamine whose flowers surpassed in size and fragrance any that Emily had seen . ’ |
| 18 | By comparison , the British tradition had already been established and was not yet to be moved . |
| 19 | In 1963 the personal spending of the elderly amounted to 9 per cent of GNP ; it was still at this level by the late 1970s and was up only to 10.8 per cent by 1983 . |
| 20 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 21 | She was making good progress and was well up to standard |
| 22 | Senna also made a brilliant start from eighth on the grid and was swiftly up to fifth and then fourth when he overcame Alesi in a wheel-to-wheel battle down the back section . |
| 23 | The Palladium opened in 1940 to the mellow trombone of Tommy Dorsey and was once home to the big band sounds of the Lawrence Welk Show , was host to five presidents and featured entertainment from ballroom dancing to rap music . |
| 24 | By 1971 hair had got even longer and was now down to the collar . |
| 25 | and was now down to 3.7 per cent . |
| 26 | 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 . |