Example sentences of "be up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter .
3 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 .
4 This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day .
5 Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty .
6 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 .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 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 .
9 The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze .
10 " 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 .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 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 " .
13 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 .
14 It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war .
15 This year a bumper crowd is expected to turn out for Northern Ireland 's premier triathlon event at Portaferry in July , and Alastair should be up with the front runners .
16 I honestly believe that because they 're certainly not strong enough erm to be up with the top boys , well they 're not going to disgrace themselves having said that , as I said before , the League 's pretty well evened out , but I think they 'll be at the lower part rather than the top part .
17 One final boost and he would be up among the true stars , all guidance systems go for a seat in the House of Lords upon retirement .
18 For that you have to be up against the real thing .
19 Time they get to about sixteen or seventeen you know they can be up in the top players .
20 Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it .
21 The Rover GTi race will also be closely contested with Mike Whalley from Holmfirth being up among the leading challengers .
22 We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us .
23 They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them .
24 ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila !
25 Each time Rugby Canada were up against the big names .
26 What 's up at the Conservation Unit
27 He 's up to the middle class !
28 It 's up to the blooming restaurant .
29 A NatWest spokeswoman said : ‘ It 's up to the individual branch management .
30 It 's up to the organic farmers to sort out the inconsistent supply complaint .
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