Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
| 2 | The God books to be found , yeah they 're up in a high place . |
| 3 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 4 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
| 5 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
| 6 | These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short . |
| 7 | ‘ Meanwhile , until we know what the Kamalians are up to the more people we have on the job the better . |
| 8 | For those who came in late , the essay titles are up on the first year notice board . |
| 9 | As it is , we are up on the same period last year , but sales through the till are down by nearly 8% . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We are up against a substantial amount of red tape , ’ O'Donovan said . |
| 11 | Or they are up against an anti-terrorist policy so cynical that its devisers are prepared to sacrifice a certain amount of civilian life in order to strip the terrorists of any legitimacy . |
| 12 | Detective Constables Rowse and Calder and Detective Sergeant Bourne are up before the next Promotion Board and your reports have n't gone in yet . ’ |
| 13 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 14 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 15 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 16 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 17 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 18 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 19 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 20 | At any given time during term there could be up to a thousand people on the compound . |
| 21 | A comparable dry desert area of the arctic might yield a similar selection of cryptogams , but there would probably be up to a dozen species of flowering plants scattered among them . |
| 22 | " Many more schemes are due to be completed in the next few years , so that by 1995 virtually all our bathing waters will be up to the required standard " , Trippier claimed . |
| 23 | ‘ It will probably take a few more days before we know the source , but it would be up to the Disciplinary Committee to decide whether it will be made public , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Speaking to MEPs on Jan. 21 Poos declared : " There is a structural weakness in existing political co-operation and it will be up to the intergovernmental conference [ opened in December 1990 — see p. 37905 ] to tackle and reverse that " . |
| 25 | After that it would be up to the German socialists to respond , pressing their own Government to adopt positions convergent with the emergent consensus among the Allies . |
| 26 | It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war . |
| 27 | The implication for the client of finding a title to attendance allowance and the severe disability premium or invalid care allowance could be up to an extra £78.60 and is therefore an alternative option to residential care . |
| 28 | Yeah , then you I know , but John I mean you 'd be up for a good couple of grand if you did stick it out . |
| 29 | yeah — they will be up for a hard re-match. the turkish home crowd is known to be wild … |
| 30 | To fit everything in here you have to be up for an early breakfast . |