Example sentences of "be [adv] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rotherham are right up at the top of the table and they are there on merit . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been right up to the fence several times ! |
| 3 | Water 's been right up over the path two days or more , I reckon it 's loosened part o ’ the foundations under here . ’ |
| 4 | — 3:11 : " I am not up to the job . " |
| 5 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 6 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 7 | Individually , we are not up to the task of trying to handle our own uniqueness . |
| 8 | There are a number of members who are not up to the job . |
| 9 | Women are not given the opportunities because very often they are not up to the job . |
| 10 | And the reason they are not up to the job is that those in charge of hiring them are mostly men . |
| 11 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 12 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 13 | Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time . |
| 14 | and as we 're right up towards the end and now after the bank holiday we 've had lovely fine weather anyway , we got off to the main road and turned at Fibwell traffic lights onto the A twenty one and we got the to end of the dual carriageway onto the tail end of the queue as it started into the road works so I just went over the central reservation and went back down the dual carriageway to the traffic lights at |
| 15 | Does this mean that they 're not up to the job ? |
| 16 | Do n't worry if your knees are way up in the air . |
| 17 | That is , when they 're not watching themselves in the mirrors , making sure that they are still up to the mark . |
| 18 | He thought that the Capra film had made ‘ greenish grass grow where there was only alkali dust before ’ because it consistently preferred ‘ the light touch to the heavy ’ and used actors ‘ who are thoroughly up to the work of acting ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Black people are really up at the moment . |
| 20 | KQ VI may be criticised as being too easy and not achieving anything new — forget that , it is good old fashioned family entertainment , and with now Kings Quest VI and Quest for Glory III Sierra are back up at the top of the pile ! |
| 21 | This morning , this morning you know , I 'm right up with the news is n't I ? |
| 22 | I 'm not up with the name of it |
| 23 | They could imagine what conditions must be like up in the mountains , having done their stint in the sticks at one time or another . |
| 24 | He soon comes into my old room cos he 's gon na be straight up on the bed , right . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'll soon be back up with the pace ’ , he says . |
| 26 | ‘ Then I could show Mother Francis that I 'd be back up in the convent in time for Mass in the chapel , and she 'd get to know I was to be relied on . ’ |
| 27 | When we are old we take longer to recover and because we ca n't discharge them to nursing kind of beds then there 'll be back up in the John Radcliffe Hospital and extra pressure there . |
| 28 | Under the registration of inspectors advocated by the Bill , local government inspection will be universally up to the standard which at the moment only the very best attain . |
| 29 | I 'm either up in the clouds or down in the dumps — you ought to know that by now . |
| 30 | The voices of money , weather and pornography ( all that uncontrollable stuff ) , they just are n't up to the job when it comes to Martina . |