Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're up at the castle . ’ |
| 2 | They 're up to the roof are n't they ? |
| 3 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 4 | It 's actually and that 's the most absorbent time , your mind 's most absorbent where you 're up to the age of five which is when you should when you 're at nursery school . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're up in the air at the moment , ’ Bono concludes a line of conversation where we 're wondering about the direction and attitude of new music ( But can you trust it ? ) especially those current wagon hoppers such as Killing Joke ( J'accuse ! ) . |
| 6 | We 're up in the air and our school 's down there |
| 7 | up there with him to clean it out because I say , you can isolate things but you 're up in the air . |
| 8 | we 're up in the air for the goal of the week from the star of the week … |
| 9 | we 're up in the air for the goal of the week from the star of the week … |
| 10 | Because you know what , they 're up in the air are n't they ? |
| 11 | And she replied by saying , ‘ Well , they 're up in the loft . |
| 12 | I 'll do it before you 're up in the morning |
| 13 | You 're up against the factory conveyor belt system of sewing when you , one person does only ears and the other does bodies and |
| 14 | you 're up against the power relationship that each patient is caught up in with their consultant . |
| 15 | ‘ But I am up on the train tomorrow . |
| 16 | Right now we know that the angle from where we are up to the top is forty degrees . |
| 17 | Of course , saying that , I am assuming these instruments are up to the company 's usual standard and not just the poor man 's alternative . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Biggar are up to the task |
| 20 | I urge my hon. Friend to keep in close touch to make sure that response times are up to the charter . |
| 21 | I hope you are up to the job . |
| 22 | No doubt theorists are up to the challenge presented by the new results and will come back in time with new estimates , before they declare the proton stable . |
| 23 | SunSoft claims many Santa Cruz Unix and Open Desktop applications now feature among the 5,000-odd software packages it says are up under the operating system . |
| 24 | The fact that you are up at the top of a business hierarchy does not confer all-seeing wisdom . |
| 25 | ‘ Jane 's finishing is the reason we are up on the rostrum with a bronze medal in our hands . |
| 26 | ‘ Jane 's finishing is the reason we are up on the rostrum with a bronze medal in our hands . |
| 27 | SunSoft claims many SCO Unix and Open Desktop applications now feature amongst the 5,000-odd software packages it says are up on the operating system . |
| 28 | Mark and Cynthia 's plans for dinner are up in the air |
| 29 | SIXTEEN contracts are up in the summer at the struggling second division club . |
| 30 | We are always better when our backs are up against the wall and under criticism . |