Example sentences of "[be] up [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two in the upper jaw are up to 5 in ( 13 cm ) long . |
| 2 | There are now only 3,000 breeding pairs in the wild , but there are up to 30,000 in captivity . |
| 3 | We have increased the number of businesses in Wales , VAT registrations are up by 25 per cent. , production industries are up by 60 per cent . |
| 4 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 5 | Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ . |
| 6 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
| 7 | From the dozen or so per week when the band is in the studio , there will be up to 100 per week as they go on the road . |
| 8 | An active group of villagers discovered that there could be up to eighty of these heavy loads . |
| 9 | Whether these compromises are acceptable or not will be up to those of us parting with our money ! |
| 10 | THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows . |
| 11 | I 've got ta be up at five in the mornin' , ’ he said , knowing it was useless to discuss it any further . |
| 12 | THE depleted North-Eastern Counties team will be up against one of the region 's leading Olympic hopefuls in the inter-counties championships at Corby today . |
| 13 | Alan Shearer and Mike Newell were up against five at the front and it was very difficult for them . ’ |
| 14 | Er no Cos it 's up like patterned on the on like , two walls and then we 've got like like a balloon different balloon erm wallpaper |
| 15 | This means that she is up at two-thirty in the morning , ironing small items of foreign clothing , while the plane is due to leave Gatwick at ten-thirty . |
| 16 | It is up to each of us to discover our own preferred means of expression , and this is best done by seeing the work of others . |
| 17 | Its effects are far reaching and require a proactive response from industry — all during a time of change in Europe when the barriers are coming down , the single market is open for trade and it is up to all of us to take advantage of it . |
| 18 | may have been a professional slip of the tongue i in saying that now be up to Labour , it is not up to Labour at all , it is up to all of u , it is up to all of us , it is up to all of us all , and you and you and you , you ca n't dump responsibility , it is up to all of us , all of us |
| 19 | may have been a professional slip of the tongue i in saying that now be up to Labour , it is not up to Labour at all , it is up to all of u , it is up to all of us , it is up to all of us all , and you and you and you , you ca n't dump responsibility , it is up to all of us , all of us |
| 20 | may have been a professional slip of the tongue i in saying that now be up to Labour , it is not up to Labour at all , it is up to all of u , it is up to all of us , it is up to all of us all , and you and you and you , you ca n't dump responsibility , it is up to all of us , all of us |
| 21 | may have been a professional slip of the tongue i in saying that now be up to Labour , it is not up to Labour at all , it is up to all of u , it is up to all of us , it is up to all of us all , and you and you and you , you ca n't dump responsibility , it is up to all of us , all of us |
| 22 | compared with the same period last year , its market share is up from 17 to 19 per cent. , and its operating profits are up by 50 per cent . |
| 23 | If the right hon. Gentleman had paid more attention to the CBI yesterday , he would have heard the director general say that since the crash of October 1987 , real take-home pay is up by 11 per cent. , manufacturing productivity is up by 20 per cent . |
| 24 | The SSA is up by 17.4 per cent. , which enables them to increase the precept by 15 per cent . |
| 25 | Never once does one hear the Opposition say that , since 1981 , manufacturing output is up 25 per cent. , manufacturing investment is up by 33 per cent. , and manufacturing production is up by more than 50 per cent . |
| 26 | And erm they had their opening , big opening night Thursday so he was , he was out , he was up at half past four that morning so I thought well we might as well go . |
| 27 | ‘ Charles was up for most of the night . |
| 28 | Our way was up to one of the few glacier tongues that was n't too steep and broken up by crevasses . |
| 29 | In the more recent squad of 35 the figure was up to four after Sale 's David Baldwin had been brought in as cover for Dooley . |
| 30 | Membership was up to 220 with a surplus on the year of £23 . |