Example sentences of "up to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Look mate , what this country needs is someone to look up to . |
| 32 | It will be up to you to write constantly and make contacts everywhere and you will largely be responsible for yourself . |
| 33 | Statistics up to 1971 showed it as having an old-age structure and to have been in continuing decline , though there are recent signs of improvement ( Census of Ireland 1981 ) . |
| 34 | The results of isolationism in terms of human suffering were massive emigration ( some 20,000 every year to Britain up to the 1960s ) , and industrial and commercial underdevelopment until the late 1950s . |
| 35 | Up to the late 1960s , catholic nationalists were split between two main political groupings . |
| 36 | At least up to 1985 , the British government submitted to the threat of violence from the loyalist community and accepted the protestant — loyalist veto on any change in the constitutional structure of their state . |
| 37 | It had continually opposed socio-political change and had had little understanding of the industrialization process up to that time . |
| 38 | Dr Browne has been something of a maverick in Irish politics even up to this present time . |
| 39 | As Ireland opened up to foreign investment under de Valera 's successor , Sean Lemass , another element in the value structure came to prominence , namely the obligation to achieve and retain full employment within the context of a modernized economy and a satisfactory level of housing , welfare , and medical care for all . |
| 40 | Added upset came in the same year from a speech by Dr W. Starkie , the commissioner of National Education in Ireland , who attacked school managers for not being up to their job . |
| 41 | Many Roman catholic schools up to 1968 were financed for capital expenditure by the local church as part of the church 's determination not to lose control of them . |
| 42 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 43 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 44 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 45 | And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement . |
| 46 | It was n't your painting , it was n't up to you to decide for me . |
| 47 | It is up to us to institute delay , he wrote . |
| 48 | I wanted to give him supper but he said he would take sandwiches up to his room and get on with his work . |
| 49 | Asked to have breakfast brought up to his room at six . |
| 50 | The bridge between the different elements that , between them , could add up to a story , is space , he wrote . |
| 51 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 52 | Taxi then from Prado and night train up to Léon . |
| 53 | Up to Hampstead and back . |
| 54 | We are never ‘ not quite up to it ’ , because there is no ‘ it ’ to be quite up to . |
| 55 | We are never ‘ not quite up to it ’ , because there is no ‘ it ’ to be quite up to . |
| 56 | Top the solution up to roughly eight pints with more hot water . |
| 57 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |
| 58 | RENEWED pressure has been placed on the Government to lengthen the summer season by bringing Britain up to European standards for public holidays . |
| 59 | Trade associations have been informed but Customs & Excise said it was up to industry bodies to inform their members . |
| 60 | ‘ The main differences between the two styles of cuisine is in the way the Chinese blend ingredients , how they introduce colour into the food , and that up to 90% of the work is done prior to cooking . ’ |