Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accusations of cynical pension-planning inevitably follow , as do questions about whether this is the sort of thing that grown men should be up to . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In any policy , medical and repatriation cover should be up to £250,000 when holidaying in Europe , unlimited for the USA and £500,000 for the rest of the world . |
| 4 | Your filter is fairly powerful and should be up to the job , but I must admit that I personally prefer undergravel filtration for almost all purposes . |
| 5 | In the first quarter of 1994 , a SuperSparc-II kicks in with first silicon clocked at around 65MHz and by the fourth quarter it should be up to 90MHz . |
| 6 | In first quarter of 1994 a SuperSparc-II kicks in with first silicon around 65MHz and by the fourth quarter it should be up to 90MHz . |
| 7 | The reception counter should be free from dust and any display literature should be up to date , neat and tidy and in its correct place . |
| 8 | It is required that the text and control data available to the users should be up to date . |
| 9 | Here , at least , the level of knowledge should be up to answering more detailed questions . |
| 10 | If this is the case , then it should be up to defending counsel to set it on its feet and persuade the judge to place the matter before the jury . |
| 11 | Where sexual intercourse takes place before the barrel of a gun , it seems quite appropriate that it should be up to the defence to discharge an evidential burden with respect to consent . |
| 12 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 13 | Some of the individual wells are capable of flowing more than 90 million cubic feet a day , and total production should be up to 245 million cubic feet a day by the time the field hits its peak next summer . |
| 14 | Anyway , if Killarney decide to allow the Down Royal executive a free date we should be up to our ears in runners . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | because they must be up to their eyes in debt |
| 17 | After this , if there was to be an after , how could she live knowing what he might be up to , and the tight corners he could be getting into . |
| 18 | Although it is of course difficult to generalise , and some credit unions pay higher rates on savings than others , this difference in the return on savings might be up to around four per cent or so . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Lemarchand might be up to anything . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Might be up to thirty . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Aw they 'll be up to somethin' , nae doot , ’ Isa 's needles clicked and the paddle-wheels of the Jeannie Deans churned on remorselessly through the grey waters of the Clyde , ‘ Chunk … chunk … chunk … ’ |
| 25 | She fully understands that it 'll be up to you and Alan to decide whether you want a book on this subject and if you think it is a complete non-starter you might like to stop her in her tracks . |
| 26 | It 'll be up to someone else to apply the data directly ’ , he said . |
| 27 | Its latest , a $23m affair to serve Europe 's Indigo requirements , opened last week at Cortaillod on the outskirts of Neuchatel , Switzerland , it 'll be up to 1,000 units a month by November . |
| 28 | If anything does happen , it 'll be up to the three of you to deal with it . ’ |
| 29 | Does n't look as though they 'll be up to anything tonight . |
| 30 | Regardless of the pit closure programme ta erm we 're in full flight erm at the end of the day we could be looking at a situation with four pits remaining in Nottinghamshire er and to that extent there 'll be up to four thousand miners still reliant on the services of , should er remain open . |