Example sentences of "[noun] [be] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if all institutions are up for grabs all the time , individuals in power will be tempted to milk their positions for private purposes , and those outside power will hesitate to form projects which take time to bear fruit . |
| 2 | Businesses in the area are being advised to make sure their accounts are up to date before tough new rules on VAT come into force . |
| 3 | WOLVERHAMPTON Wanderers are up for sale at £4million , just three years after the club were saved from extinction . |
| 4 | To suggest that the signs are up in order to show a ‘ vigorous contempt for the people whose productive labour pays for all their intellectual endeavour ’ is not only wrong but reinforces the old stereotype of ‘ them and us ’ which at least some colleges are trying to break down . |
| 5 | People are even buying more fruit : a greengrocer says his takings are up by £300 a week . |
| 6 | So how many houses are up for sale now ? |
| 7 | Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report . |
| 8 | Make sure the plans are up to date and include all buildings . |
| 9 | 2 To show that these products are up to date and invaluable to the modern man or woman . |
| 10 | And already fans are up in arms . |
| 11 | The ASA 's rules mean that companies must check with the MPS to ensure its lists are up to date before they are used . |
| 12 | STRUGGLING Second Division Mansfield are up for sale . |
| 13 | The herd are part of the Batsford Park estate , near Moreton in Marsh and now the magnificent animals are up for sale , following the death of the former Lord Dulverton . |
| 14 | Fines for a car are up to £1,000 ; for a lorry , up to £25,000 . |
| 15 | Holstein yields are up to 1,000kg higher than those of Friesian types in Britain and the butterfat content is now similar . |
| 16 | In Gloucestershire break-ins were up by 30% , second only to Cheshire . |
| 17 | New annual premiums were up from $51.6m to $57.2m and single premiums from $189.3m to $334.4m . |
| 18 | ‘ Our vote is up in Scotland , our seats are up in Scotland and our argument is getting through in Scotland , ’ he said on Friday . |
| 19 | The divide between the unionist and nationalist parties has widened — the combined SDLP-Sinn Fein vote is up by 2pc to 34.4pc — and , worst of all , the IRA is making a mockery of security policy . |
| 20 | Yeah , and also he lives so far out and he was saying you know , Julie 's up in er in Birmingham , Andy 's up in Birmingham , he 's had no one to see , Eileen 's come back up to Birmingham he sees quite a lot of and er I think he 's just a bit lonely . |
| 21 | The pound is up at $1.50 one dollar fifty , and up at DM12*57 ) two marks , fifty-seven . |
| 22 | 9.9 at 2842.9 The pound is up at $1.49 one dollar , forty-nine and up at DM12*55 ) two marks , fifty-five . |
| 23 | THE biggest individual guaranteed cash prize ever offered in North West fishing is up for grabs in Saturday 's Octoplus Echo Spring Classic final . |
| 24 | The president 's term is up in November , and his re-election was already in doubt . |
| 25 | This can be clearly seen at St Oswald 's in Gloucester , where the many phases of development are more clear in elevation than plan , and where , ironically , the earliest masonry is up above arches put in at a later date . |
| 26 | And you do know that the data is up to date ( the first instruction given to students when studying bits of weather paper at a number of airfields these days should be to check the date on the top ) . |
| 27 | I think the hammer 's up in Thomas 's flat . |
| 28 | Scottish Hydro was up from 79p partly paid on Thursday morning to 98p at the close on Friday . |
| 29 | There was also the precedent established by the British when the ARB refused to validate the US certificate of airworthiness of the Boeing 707 in its original form and the manufacturers had to design and fit an additional dorsal fin to improve its ‘ Dutch roll ’ characteristics before Dai Davis , the ARB chief test pilot , was satisfied that the aircraft was up to UK certification standards . |
| 30 | He 'd always gone to the fields long before Edward was up for school , but today he was still wrapping his lunchtime bread and cheese in a cloth . |