Example sentences of "[being] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not picture Derek being up for it quite honestly , can you ? |
| 2 | ‘ QIS has made a very successful job of forming corporate glue ’ across locations between colleagues and now the inevitable fragmentation and the feeling of being up for grabs ’ is destroying links and making people retreat into defending their own area . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you knew him to be a criminal , you suspected him of being up to no good . |
| 5 | Actually , the former Soviet Union had been invited to do the honours but declined , not being up to it organisationally nor economically at present . |
| 6 | I figured a man like Truro Daine , who is well known for being up to his knees in dirt year in year out , would have a lot of use for their product , and decided to call on him to give a heavy pitch for the latest range of fine-bristled superswift specials . |
| 7 | Batch processing in the case of the personnel system could in some areas lead to information being up to two months out of date . |
| 8 | He was the one who 'd complained the most loudly and vociferously about Blend Six not being up to the job , that the burn characteristics were wrong , that the car was running uneven . |
| 9 | But I was right about him being up to something she thought . |
| 10 | Hosts : Cattle and buffalo Site : Small intestine Distribution : Mainly in tropical and warm regions T. vitulorum is the largest intestinal parasite of cattle , the females being up to 30.0 cm long . |
| 11 | Yet what workforce is left is asked , no it 's told that one point five is a sufficient pay rise given the present economic climate , the catch being up to one point five , not one point five . |
| 12 | Do you think it helps them being up with the ? |
| 13 | ‘ I fully intend being up at dawn to see the ship dock . |
| 14 | SINGLE travellers would be justified in being up in arms over InterCity Sleeper 's latest ad suggesting that you : ‘ Save money . |
| 15 | and erm but erm even so getting to and from the bus was a bit of a problem , unfortunately I 've never had erm been one of these people who have got the nerve to erm go about a great deal by themselves and erm being up in London you know , immediately before the war I had erm , it was n't very easy getting about so erm and erm I was n't very |
| 16 | It 's terribly suspicious , Reinhard , you being up in Denmark when the old fox flies away . |
| 17 | I thought of Hugh being up in Perth |
| 18 | It may be that the government has a proportion of the blame but you 're not surely condoning teachers who have these problems being up in front of children in the classroom ? |
| 19 | Oxfordshire 's children 's line is being relaunched this evening ; posters carrying the slogan ‘ help is only a phone call away ’ have being up in schools and sports venues throughout the area , and the line opens at six thirty — ten minutes time . |
| 20 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 21 | The Rover GTi race will also be closely contested with Mike Whalley from Holmfirth being up among the leading challengers . |