Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where are you then , yeah , but , you 're up in the high |
| 2 | where are one , we 're up in the high are n't we ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 7 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 14 | " Many more schemes are due to be completed in the next few years , so that by 1995 virtually all our bathing waters will be up to the required standard " , Trippier claimed . |
| 15 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 16 | ‘ It will probably take a few more days before we know the source , but it would be up to the Disciplinary Committee to decide whether it will be made public , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Speaking to MEPs on Jan. 21 Poos declared : " There is a structural weakness in existing political co-operation and it will be up to the intergovernmental conference [ opened in December 1990 — see p. 37905 ] to tackle and reverse that " . |
| 18 | After that it would be up to the German socialists to respond , pressing their own Government to adopt positions convergent with the emergent consensus among the Allies . |
| 19 | It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war . |
| 20 | This year a bumper crowd is expected to turn out for Northern Ireland 's premier triathlon event at Portaferry in July , and Alastair should be up with the front runners . |
| 21 | I mean , you could be up with the fucking could n't you ? |
| 22 | I honestly believe that because they 're certainly not strong enough erm to be up with the top boys , well they 're not going to disgrace themselves having said that , as I said before , the League 's pretty well evened out , but I think they 'll be at the lower part rather than the top part . |
| 23 | One final boost and he would be up among the true stars , all guidance systems go for a seat in the House of Lords upon retirement . |
| 24 | For that you have to be up against the real thing . |
| 25 | Time they get to about sixteen or seventeen you know they can be up in the top players . |
| 26 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 27 | The Rover GTi race will also be closely contested with Mike Whalley from Holmfirth being up among the leading challengers . |
| 28 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 29 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 30 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |