Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So get it in there , just before , so you 're up at six o'clock in the mornings are you ? |
| 2 | But we were a little ahead of the captain : winter and summer , we 're up at five . |
| 3 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 4 | Oh they 're up to all bloody tricks |
| 5 | Right , so after twenty seconds they 're up to full speed , and flat out , erm they 're at forty five degrees . |
| 6 | ‘ Honestly , Daddy , I do n't know what you 're up to half the time . |
| 7 | But does this mean that our friends from Dixieland — the Intelligence Service lived south of the river ‘ — are going to give us a hint of what they 're up to these days ? ’ |
| 8 | you know erm daily , just so we know when somebody does appear , if they 're , you know , if we , you know , wanted a chat with them or , you know , to see what they 're up to these days that yeah but I w er yeah yeah . |
| 9 | Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times . |
| 10 | We 're up to 81 subscribers right now , which is pretty good . |
| 11 | We 're up to local radio and television today , if today is as good as yesterday was , I think you 'll all enjoy it . |
| 12 | The minute the seatbelt sign goes off , they 're up in First Class . |
| 13 | ‘ If we are dealing with the Pessarane Behesht then we 're up against some very dangerous and unpredictable people . |
| 14 | There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems . |
| 15 | It is understood there are up to 500 peregrine falcons in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | There are up to 8 rugose arm spines which are invested with thickened skin . |
| 17 | There are up to 8 straight pointed arm spines . |
| 18 | There are up to eight parallel veins on either side of the midrib and a mass of cross veins connecting them . |
| 19 | Dividend yields on expected 1992 earnings are up to 3.8 p.c. , compared with an average 3 p.c. over the last seven years and the economy can count on a resilient currency , low wage claims and an expected 40 p.c. fall in the trade deficit this year . |
| 20 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 21 | The vast majority of these incomplete schools are in rural areas where classes are also large — the teachers ' union COLPROSUMAH claims that in some rural schools there are up to 120 children in a classroom . |
| 22 | Given the favourable non-wage labour cost which the minister told us about a moment ago , how does he justify the enormous discrepancy in wages between England and Wales as an average and areas like South Wales and Northumberland where average weekly earnings are up to sixty five pounds less than the average and will he explain to us why the government is not tackling huge wage differentials in this country ? |
| 23 | These moves would not disgrace a HVS climb were it not for the fact that two sets of in situ threads protect them perfectly : a good testing ground to see if you are up to greater things . |
| 24 | Ten bit positions are sufficient for most words ( 83% of words in a lexicon of 70,000 words are up to 10 letters long ) , so for words 10 letters long , bits 9 and 10 are set , and for words more than 10 letters long , only bit 10 is set . |
| 25 | Comparison of present rates of denudation and orogeny allowed Schumm ( 1963a ) to deduce that the production of a planation surface could take between 10 and 110 million years and to show that present rates of orogeny are up to 10 times faster than rates of denudation . |
| 26 | There are up to 10 short only slightly rugose arm spines . |
| 27 | * Aluminium levels in some brands of " fresh " and " reconstituted " whole orange juices are up to 10 times higher than levels in local tap water , researchers in Bristol have found . |
| 28 | Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen . |
| 29 | The two in the upper jaw are up to 5 in ( 13 cm ) long . |
| 30 | There are up to 250,000 sufferers in Britain today — about 20,000 of them in hospital at any one time . |