Example sentences of "[adv] be up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's only been up since quarter to three |
| 2 | It can only be up to ourselves to either be seduced by this sly trickster and his façade of grandeur or to laugh in the face of his absurdity and bring forth the somewhat obscured benevolence of God , his son , and our first ancestral parents , to achieve some perspective to the poem as a whole . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Not been up to anything . |
| 5 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 6 | And our all round cricket has not been up to standard . ’ |
| 7 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 8 | I 've already been up at your |
| 9 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 10 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
| 11 | I 've just been up to Tesco 's . |
| 12 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 13 | ‘ Look dear , Joe 's just been up with a tray of sumptuous goodies . |
| 14 | The smaller town of Souvala , and poor Perdika , have not yet got that far ; but in general Aegina will fairly soon be up to the standards those fussy Germans and English expect . |
| 15 | THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows . |
| 16 | So , surely there could be no objection to someone taking a look at a place that would soon be up for sale anyway ? |
| 17 | She looked different somehow and she might just be up to something . |
| 18 | If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ? |
| 19 | But it will not be up to me alone . |
| 20 | ANYONE CONCERNED that their camcorder skills might not be up to par could consider doing what some New Yorkers have done — take a ‘ how to ’ class in X-rated video production . |
| 21 | He said delicately , ‘ Stock involves quite a lot of ladder work , in the warehouse … ’ as if Anna might not be up to such physical strenuousness . |
| 22 | A lot of them send stuff that might be the greatest thing they 've ever produced , but looked at objectively it may not be up to much . |
| 23 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 24 | Unlike the present law , it will not be up to the defendant to prove his belief , the burden of proof will rest on the prosecution . |
| 25 | him but er he might not be up in time anyway , cos he 's got a lot of work to do and he thinks he might be up all night tonight , in which case , he wo n't be getting up very early in the morning . |
| 26 | Added upset came in the same year from a speech by Dr W. Starkie , the commissioner of National Education in Ireland , who attacked school managers for not being up to their job . |
| 27 | Actually , the former Soviet Union had been invited to do the honours but declined , not being up to it organisationally nor economically at present . |
| 28 | He was the one who 'd complained the most loudly and vociferously about Blend Six not being up to the job , that the burn characteristics were wrong , that the car was running uneven . |
| 29 | I believe everybody should be given this opportunity , whether they take it or not is up to them . |
| 30 | Have you ever been up to Clogwyn Du'r Arddu in the pouring rain and the vilest weather ? |