Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the country was due to wake up to a teeth-chattering 4C ( 39F ) — six degrees lower than average — with ground frost in many parts of the South , Midlands and Scotland . |
| 2 | He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said . |
| 3 | However , the region 's greatest prize , California , which was due to gain up to seven congressional seats through re-districting , eluded the Democrats . |
| 4 | US officials quoting Kuwaiti sources said on Feb. 26 that the Kuwaiti government was prepared to spend up to $800,000,000 to restore emergency health care , sanitation , communications , transport , utilities , food and water in the first three months after the end of the war . |
| 5 | Now he was prepared to live up to the role . |
| 6 | Yet , during the late 1930s , Labour 's clear hostility towards European fascism , and its support of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War confirmed it to be a party which was prepared to face up to fascism . |
| 7 | Sybil gave a knowing smile as if to imply that in the interests of justice she was prepared to face up to this bizarre , extremely unpleasant but undeniable phenomenon . |
| 8 | Harvard allowed no big orders over 25,000 shares , while it was willing to take up to 1 million shares on its books from sellers . |
| 9 | Some distance behind them her ladies walked ; they were kind , but they oppressed her with their insistence on her royalty , and it was hard to live up to them . |
| 10 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 11 | I the work I 'd done in the past the training I 've had the experience I 've had with Hector and his work that was all leading up to that . |
| 12 | After a month , the pain began to ease slightly and Lisa was able to get up to her own room with Janet 's help . |
| 13 | Blue Streak was unlikely to measure up to this requirement . |
| 14 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |