Example sentences of "[adv] [be] up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows .
4 So , surely there could be no objection to someone taking a look at a place that would soon be up for sale anyway ?
5 She looked different somehow and she might just be up to something .
6 They were written during the thirties , but much of it would still be up to date — after all , I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly .
7 But it will still be up to you to decide the interception angle .
8 However , the laws do not tell us what the universe should have looked like when it started — it would still be up to God to wind up the clockwork and choose how to start it off .
9 For , of course , no matter what it decides , it will still have to comprise a desirable process for the market makers and it will still be up to investors to risk putting their money into the companies concerned .
10 GOSPEL singer Michael Card will play the Assembly Hall in Belfast tonight — and still be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to dash up the Antrim Coast for the North West 200 .
11 Billing machines and the tabular ledger are used in the preparation of accounts and the work must always be up to the minute , as it should be possible to produce a guest 's bill immediately on request .
12 Regional and runners-up prizes will also be up for grabs .
13 • It seems that Danielle Dax 's ‘ Pop Eyes ’ , once a contender in the NME indie charts , could also be up for re-release through WSD .
14 And the Katowice defender will also be up against Graham Taylor 's men in the World Cup qualifying group .
15 A comparable dry desert area of the arctic might yield a similar selection of cryptogams , but there would probably be up to a dozen species of flowering plants scattered among them .
16 ‘ You 'd rather be up against androids ? ’
17 This potentially , means that there can now be up to 32,767 unique fonts — each with their four basic stylistic variations , although Apple reserve the first 1,024 .
18 It will now be up to the Archbishop of Canterbury to decide if the church should take disciplinary action .
19 may have been a professional slip of the tongue i in saying that now be up to Labour , it is not up to Labour at all , it is up to all of u , it is up to all of us , it is up to all of us all , and you and you and you , you ca n't dump responsibility , it is up to all of us , all of us
20 So what you really have from the government is a set of guidelines , and it will now be up to each Local Education Authority to interpret those guidelines and to make their own provision .
21 Rather than looking abroad , smart European bankers will already have realised that with banks like Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific pulling back from Europe , some of the best corporate business will now be up for grabs in their own backyards .
22 It would then be up to the US and Canada to decide whether they want to face towards the Atlantic or Pacific — or be caught between two great trading oceans .
23 It will then be up to local Health Authorities and Hospital Trusts to decide for themselves what to invest in management development , if Conservative Government remains .
24 It will then be up to a care manager to decide on the level of service .
25 It would then be up to the employee to set up his own business and exploit the patent if he is able to attract venture or loan capital to do so .
26 It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war .
27 Two , the could proceed without the landlord 's licence , it would then be up to the landlord to apply to the court to have the lease forfeited when you could arrange the defence that you were a reasonable tenant and as such the assignment should have been allowed to permit this course of action but of course you are using bank money as well as your own and the bank would be unhappy to lend money in a situation where there was a possibility , albeit a slight , that the lease would be forfeited .
28 ‘ It will then be up to him to decide , in his view , whether he thinks the sentence was unduly lenient or not . ’
29 ‘ It will then be up to him to decide , in his view , whether he thinks the sentence was unduly lenient or not . ’
30 But then he 'd have to take the desk with him if he was n't to be completely disorientated , and he 'd never be up to manhandling such a heavy piece of furniture .
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