Example sentences of "[vb mod] be up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your filter is fairly powerful and should be up to the job , but I must admit that I personally prefer undergravel filtration for almost all purposes . |
| 2 | Where sexual intercourse takes place before the barrel of a gun , it seems quite appropriate that it should be up to the defence to discharge an evidential burden with respect to consent . |
| 3 | It is similarly arguable that it should be up to the defence to provide a proper foundation of evidence for an assertion that a woman who has been robbed by a man nonetheless subsequently consented to sexual intercourse with him . |
| 4 | It should be up on the 800 server series in the third quarter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Try to understand that Pop should be up in the air , supernatural , alive to all angles and shades of emotion , plastic and twice-cooked . |
| 7 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |
| 8 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 9 | If anything does happen , it 'll be up to the three of you to deal with it . ’ |
| 10 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 11 | ‘ There will be a swingometer operated by the barman and we 'll be up throughout the night . ’ |
| 12 | Robert Dunlop says its a good team and on Easter friday he 'll be up against the best in the world … he 's a positive man and hopes to be British champion this year |
| 13 | The notices 'll be up within the week ’ . |
| 14 | I 'll be up in the shed . |
| 15 | I mean , you could be up with the fucking could n't you ? |
| 16 | She could be at home or she could be up in the wood still . |
| 17 | If it was n't , I 'd be up in the loft poring over old NME s . ’ |
| 18 | And certainly af after the riots , they were always erm couple of days , perhaps longer than that where erm local policemen would be up on the walkways , playing football with the local kids . |
| 19 | He would be up with the morning chorus , while Beth was happy to mooch around for hours in her nightdress , drinking black coffee , smoking cigarettes and watching breakfast television . |
| 20 | However , the Government has proposed changing this so that the final decision would be up to the DoE . |
| 21 | It would be up to the courts to decide on the matter , ’ says her local trading standards officer , Mr Slater . |
| 22 | It would be up to the scientists to decide which is the viable option and which belongs to the realm of science fiction . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the Department of Health and social security said a decision to implant an artificial heart would be up to the doctor ‘ like any other replacement operation ’ . |
| 24 | The Institute has been given legal advice to the effect that there is a possibility that the defence of qualified or absolute privilege might be available , but it would be up to the courts to decide and the only way of finding out would be a test case . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He would not dare ask for money ; instead it would be up to the gentleman to raise the matter and to give payment when he deemed suitable . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | It would be up to the psychologist to decide whether or not there was any mental impairment to their full understanding . ’ |
| 29 | He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players . |
| 30 | Well that would be up to the colleges , if they 're commercially astute they 'll say right yeah twenty-five quid for that , in fact it would be a lot less because it 's only for three months |