Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
2 | The God books to be found , yeah they 're up in a high place . |
3 | Where are you then , yeah , but , you 're up in the high |
4 | where are one , we 're up in the high are n't we ? |
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 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
7 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
8 | 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 … |
9 | There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks . |
10 | The association and others criticise what I describe as independent inspectors , but we can reassure them in the Bill and elsewhere by showing how powerful HMI will be in ensuring that standards are up to the required level . |
11 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
12 | These digital and digitally remastered recordings date from the late ‘ 70s and '80s and information/presentation/quality are up to the usual Chandos high standards , although playing times tend to be short . |
13 | ‘ Meanwhile , until we know what the Kamalians are up to the more people we have on the job the better . |
14 | For those who came in late , the essay titles are up on the first year notice board . |
15 | As it is , we are up on the same period last year , but sales through the till are down by nearly 8% . ’ |
16 | After only 20 doublings , which does n't take very long , we are up in the millions . |
17 | ‘ We are up against a substantial amount of red tape , ’ O'Donovan said . |
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 | 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 . |
20 | Detective Constables Rowse and Calder and Detective Sergeant Bourne are up before the next Promotion Board and your reports have n't gone in yet . ’ |
21 | Company boss Peter Johnson revealed that pre-tax profits are up by a third and also forecast a cracker of a year ahead . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
25 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
26 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
27 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
28 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
29 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
30 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |