Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Town are up with the pacemakers for promotion .
2 ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog .
3 This has never been up among the recommendations for this work , and even at mid-price it is n't competitive with those versions listed above .
4 That way , I think that some land might become available , but it would have to be up to the planners to be more flexible .
5 The plan 's changes should go a long way to drag Lloyd 's up to the standards of other financial markets .
6 The type of material used for this project is up to the whims of the individual , and may run from a soft cedar to the more expensive hardwoods , or a combination of woods , depending on the grain pattern and colour contrasts desired .
7 No other sort of mind is up to the demands of the system , which needs to seem to have judicial impartiality and a rocklike permanance while also being quickly responsive to the latest political fads .
8 Usually it is up to the ratepayers in the area to pay for the clean-up afterwards .
9 Well we nearly when I was up with the children at the to when I was
10 Mary was up on the fells with her flock of sheep and goats , she said , perhaps over Buttermere way or maybe towards Robinson .
11 Scotland was kilt-deep in it ; it was up to the lorry-axles on Shap , up to the bus-steps in London .
12 Bunting ( 1978 ) in more general terms disclaims this responsibility and states that with the introduction of high-yielding paddy it was to be expected there were social problems but it was up to the politicians to ‘ do something about it ’ .
13 He set barns on fire , was up before the magistrates for theft and by the time he was thirteen he was stealing cars .
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