Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] arm " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the word , son , there , you the decide , sing child if you feel more comfortable with that , you 're up in arms . |
| 2 | Because they are one of the worst ones if they bought er a Land Rover or any any British make , Oh oh look at the shoddy British , they 're crying they 're up in arms and they 're doing exactly the same thing now . |
| 3 | What do they say , they 're up in arms ? |
| 4 | Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report . |
| 5 | The people who voted for the puppy are up in arms . |
| 6 | And already fans are up in arms . |
| 7 | TEACHERS on both sides of the Atlantic are up in arms about school tests . |
| 8 | Needless to say , the credit card companies are up in arms at this suggestion and are fighting all the way . |
| 9 | I do not believe that the people of Scotland are up in arms over the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , North-East ( Mr. Kirkhope ) is , among his many other duties , the Scottish Whip . |
| 10 | Er the market traders er are up in arms about this and I found them er in the process of trying to get a petition together but it it was n't put together right , they were just getting people to sign blank pieces of paper . |
| 11 | Some German women are up in arms , No thank you , they say to going back to the role of mothers and home builders . |
| 12 | and Southwold are up in arms with it |
| 13 | Still to come : farmers are up in arms over the Poll Tax on empty farm cottages , and forty thousand pounds from the N H S lottery comes to Oxford . |
| 14 | Civil libertarians would be up in arms but it would mean fewer animals whose final romp is into a killing-room . |
| 15 | With the ICAEW examinations the tutors would be up in arms if any referral subject had a pass rate less than the rate for students sitting all papers . |
| 16 | Everyone ought to be up in arms about it . ’ |
| 17 | After all , football left leather behind long ago , but I expect cricketers will be up in arms about this suggestion . |
| 18 | Now if we were actually to do that in our service books , which is what one of the things that the Methodist conference suggests we consider , just crossing out and putting in the correct non-sexists language , I bet you that eighty percent of our church would be up in arms . |
| 19 | Do you not think she must be up in arms by this time , at being treated like a bone between three dogs ? |
| 20 | By this point some of my readers will be up in arms . |
| 21 | I would n't ask your father , but your mother would , I 'm sure , be up in arms . |
| 22 | ‘ But I 'm not prepared to have this new expansion with all the congestion and noise it would cause and 90pc of people in the area will be up in arms . |
| 23 | I think if we knew what those heart and lung transplants cost , people would be up in arms that the National Health Service is being expected to fund that . |
| 24 | SINGLE travellers would be justified in being up in arms over InterCity Sleeper 's latest ad suggesting that you : ‘ Save money . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 26 | PUNTERS at Huntingdon yesterday were up in arms after Bully Boy , the outsider of three , stormed home by a distance in the Long Sutton Handicap Chase . |
| 27 | Many , it is true , shouted enthusiastically that we were right and to be congratulated , but many others were up in arms at our intrepid temerity . |
| 28 | But they were up in arms on Saturday as Liverpool crashed to Wimbledon . |
| 29 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |
| 30 | you 've only got to see any tax that goes up and everyone 's up in arms about it . |