Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're up for a ‘ tart ’ part you must be prepared to present a flavour of the role as you see it . |
| 2 | They 're up like a lark the next morning . |
| 3 | The God books to be found , yeah they 're up in a high place . |
| 4 | I mean we 're up against a wall . |
| 5 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
| 6 | Now I do n't see that there 's likely to be any connection , but since we 're up against a brick wall in the Stavanger case , I 've come to pick your brains . " |
| 7 | " You say you 're up against a brick wall — well , that 's just where we got to in the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 8 | Because when my government does see the pattern — you 're quite right they do n't want to see it right now and my D-G is n't helping them — but when these people do the next thing , and it 'll have to be something big — they 're up against a deadline on Berlin they 've already escalated it from forged documents to drugging people to shooting them God knows what comes next well when something new happens the lone psychopath theory will be dead , dead , dead . |
| 9 | Crusaders know only too well they 're up against a class outfit . |
| 10 | Our solicitor is fighting for that , but we seem as though we 're up against a brick wall at the moment , so we 'll have to just wait and see . |
| 11 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 12 | The alternatives are up to a pint of seed bait , such as sweetcorn , a pint of casters , etc . |
| 13 | It 's estimated there are up to a thousand homeless people in Swindon … and the Breakfast Club is seen as one way to make life more tolerable … |
| 14 | There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks . |
| 15 | ‘ We are up against a substantial amount of red tape , ’ O'Donovan said . |
| 16 | They and the opposition are up against a tradition of oppression that goes back to Tamerlane . |
| 17 | The water authority responded with its case : ‘ We are up against a lot of pressure from landowners to do something about the flooding . ’ |
| 18 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 19 | We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas . |
| 20 | One adviser , for instance , protested to Johnson on 28 July 1966 , " In short , we are up against an attitude of mind which , in effect , prefers that we take losses in the free world rather than the risks of confrontation . " |
| 21 | Or they are up against an anti-terrorist policy so cynical that its devisers are prepared to sacrifice a certain amount of civilian life in order to strip the terrorists of any legitimacy . |
| 22 | Dividends are up by a quarter to 11.4p , after a final of 7½p payable on May 27 , with earnings growing in line to 54½p . |
| 23 | Company boss Peter Johnson revealed that pre-tax profits are up by a third and also forecast a cracker of a year ahead . |
| 24 | Now it , it does sound , ninety five per cent sound a lot , but the actual numbers involved are up from a hundred and twenty three to two hundred and forty . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence . |
| 27 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
| 29 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 30 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |