Example sentences of "be up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas . |
2 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
3 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
4 | Experts warned last night that it could be up to a year before he is returned to Jersey . |
5 | Present day rent free periods can be up to a year or even longer , and the tenant will not wish to make the first payment of rent on the date of the lease where the Rent Commencement Date is 12 months hence . |
6 | Well there is up to a point because you know how bad they are at responding . |
7 | Figures in the CBI report show that manufacturing output in the past decade , at precisely the same point in the economic cycle , is up by a quarter , investment is up by a third , productivity is up by a half and manufactured exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
8 | It is now up a quarter on what it was 10 years ago , investments are up a third , productivity is up by a half and exports are up by three quarters . |
9 | We were downstairs , laid out like sardines under the Morrison shelter , but when this happened my Dad was up like a shot and racing up the stairs with a bucket of sand , ready to throw it over what we assumed was an incendiary bomb which had come through the roof . |