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

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1 ‘ QIS has made a very successful job of forming corporate glue ’ across locations between colleagues and now the inevitable fragmentation and the feeling of being up for grabs ’ is destroying links and making people retreat into defending their own area .
2 SINGLE travellers would be justified in being up in arms over InterCity Sleeper 's latest ad suggesting that you : ‘ Save money .
3 Publication date for the directory was last month and the editorial listing for Hanson appears to be up to date .
4 It was good to be up to date with the entering .
5 Hers was high-level popularization ; at other levels were such elementary works as Jane Marcet 's Conversations on Chemistry , ( 1806 ) and Samuel Parkes ' Chemical Catechism , ( 1806 ) though both these reckoned to be up to date with new discoveries such as those of Davy .
6 And do not expect them to be up to date — if you carry on reading Practical PC you might soon know more about state of the art computing than the tutor .
7 Encourage members to be up to date in risk assessment and management by inclusion of appropriate initial education and continuing professional development .
8 Please let the office know about any alterations when they happen ( we like to be up to date ! ) .
9 But a lot of people would say of course that it is of such importance , that we really ought to be up to date with exactly what 's going on , after all this is happening on our behalf .
10 It 's only likely to cause a problem if they think my work is n't going to be up to standard .
11 Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic .
12 The bill for the royal party 's four-day stay — said to be up to £24,000 a night — is being met by the Korean government .
13 The programming in this release is really first rate , and its top graphics and controls allow this to claim to be up to arcade standards .
14 Although Portland ( a Thomson subsidiary ) and Tjaebourg itself seemed to be doing well , in 1985 the British Airways subsidiary Martin Rook was rumoured to be up for disposal , with an uncertain future .
15 Yeah and I suppose it 's always going to be up for sort of negotiation , I mean I
16 ‘ I 'd need to be much better to be up with Alan in the results , ’ he says ‘ but I 'm improving .
17 It 's all one to me but time 's getting on and your Auntie 'll want you back early if you 're to be up at crack of dawn in the morning . ’
18 Had be to be up at quarter to eight .
19 Everyone ought to be up in arms about it . ’
20 Money enough for Lionel to idle away his days , to be all the Season in London , to be up in Yorkshire when it pleased him …
21 The last thing she needed was to be up in front of the stewards again .
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