Example sentences of "[be] [adv] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In science , especially the hard sciences , the culprits are normally up against a robust professional consensus that defines excellence , originality , and the nature of evidence . |
| 2 | The incomparable off-roader , its restyled interior also sets new luxury standards for a leisure vehicle — they 're fully up to the rich appointments of a Mercedes-Benz saloon . |
| 3 | Since this release the Toms have followed up with the equally impressive ‘ Ruff Disco EP ’ from Nature Boy and are now up to a healthy six releases . |
| 4 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 5 | Both are well up on the old 1.8 's 89hp and 101lbf ft , and ( even allowing for an extra 234kg/516lb of flab ) power/weight ratio has improved by 19% . |
| 6 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 7 | These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ . |
| 8 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 9 | ‘ She does n't get out much , ’ said Shirley flatly : a statement at once accurate and wonderfully , gloriously misleading : ‘ she does n't get out much ’ , an acceptable phrase , a dull little coin , an everyday coin , suggesting a mild , an ordinary , a commonplace disinclination , for in Northam ‘ getting out ’ was in many circles regarded as suspect , as improper , as leading to no good ( those making merry in Breasbrough , for example , were undoubtedly up to no good ) — a freak tolerated in the young , though with much grumbling , but considered dissolute , wayward , against nature in their elders . |
| 10 | Not only because of the risk and the safety factor er of the gun going off , because of er a movement by that person on the floor , but so there 's no getting around it that , should a firearm be discharged against a solid object in as much as er the barrel is right up against an individual , and the trigger is pulled . |
| 11 | And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills . |
| 12 | ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said . |
| 13 | It is an offence to drive when your eyesight is not up to the required standard . |
| 14 | This reviewer is a long-time fan of Mr Greer 's superb aviation art in the Squadron Signal series over many years ; sadly , his figure work is not up to the same very high standard . |
| 15 | Managers are responsible for providing their people with development opportunities , but it is always up to the individual person to take the opportunities on offer and make something of them . |
| 16 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |
| 17 | I trust you 'll find the other one to your satisfaction , though I fear it 's hardly up to the five-star standards you 're doubtless accustomed to . ’ |
| 18 | This is slightly up on the previous year but for the past five years there has been no substantial rise in the number of asylum-seekers . |
| 19 | The graphics in 256 colour mode are pretty good , and the ground detail is also up to a high standard . |
| 20 | At last British output per head is now up to the European average , largely because the latter has slowed down so much . |
| 21 | It is now up to the mainstream physicists to show that they can organise themselves to the point where they can justify their basic funds , and the extra money that has now been set aside for them ( This Week , 3 February , p 287 ) . |
| 22 | It is then up to the clinical teacher to check the effectiveness of her own work by watching the students ' progress in attaining a high standard of nursing care . |
| 23 | Headley Feast with today 's round up of the national football . |
| 24 | Michael Banks knew that The Hooded Owl was not up to the required standard . |
| 25 | Young Charlie — who was always up to no good as far as I could see — nevertheless had what Tata called ‘ a future ’ . |
| 26 | If he was really up to no good the situation might have turned awkward — though as it happens he was perfectly civil , and I was n't nervous . ’ |
| 27 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 28 | By eight o'clock , when the first pair was due to tee off , the sun was well up in a clear sky . |
| 29 | He was n't up to the fancy footwork required for duelling on the high seas . |
| 30 | Twenty fi I mean last week there was a hundred sixty in and that was actually up on the previous couple of weeks , just |