Example sentences of "[pron] are up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that you are up at the top of a business hierarchy does not confer all-seeing wisdom . |
| 2 | I hope you are up to the job . |
| 3 | Right now we know that the angle from where we are up to the top is forty degrees . |
| 4 | ‘ Jane 's finishing is the reason we are up on the rostrum with a bronze medal in our hands . |
| 5 | ‘ Jane 's finishing is the reason we are up on the rostrum with a bronze medal in our hands . |
| 6 | As it is , we are up on the same period last year , but sales through the till are down by nearly 8% . ’ |
| 7 | We are up on The Tummel to-day in a Golden Haze of Perthshire sunshine & scenery … no salmon but lovely views ! |
| 8 | ‘ We are up against a substantial amount of red tape , ’ O'Donovan said . |
| 9 | The water authority responded with its case : ‘ We are up against a lot of pressure from landowners to do something about the flooding . ’ |
| 10 | We are up against a ceiling and if we added new areas to the map , we should have to remove other areas . |
| 11 | 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 . " |
| 12 | After only 20 doublings , which does n't take very long , we are up in the millions . |
| 13 | There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks . |
| 14 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 15 | The new , independent Her Majesty 's inspectorate will have the duty of giving a little lion stamp to those inspectors and ensuring that they are up to the mark . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |