Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not only up against the ghost of Simon Ellis , he 's paying this other man 's bill . |
| 2 | The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia . |
| 3 | What is required , Locke argues , is that the law of nature be embodied in a set of known and established laws that there be an ind in short that it 's not just up to the individual to state what the law of nature is in any particular case , you know , you 've got a set of known and established laws , you know , which do that . |
| 4 | If they are extensively sheared or cold-worked , however , there is some improvement in shear strength , though not nearly up to the theoretical value . |
| 5 | Once the lessons began I realized that I was not nearly up to the standard of the others . |
| 6 | Because i at the top it 's not straight up to the |
| 7 | Mr Jones , my old PE teacher , had advised me to join an athletics club , so I went to West London Stadium , not far up from the old White City and adjacent to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . |
| 8 | Top marks to Fender for continuing to care for us , the poverty-stricken masses , but while the Squier Hank was a nice enough guitar , we felt that the pickups and hardware were not really up to the standard of an early-to-mid '80s Squier or Tokai . |
| 9 | ‘ He is the son of the Khedive 's third wife , so not high up in the stakes . |
| 10 | The Gloucester ski racing team are out on the slopes training all winter … except this time we 're not high up in the Alps but right here in England in Telford in shropshire … this is artificial snow … its the only slope of its kind in the country … and to save money and time our young racers are coming here to train … |
| 11 | The book was well received by the Lancet and British Medical Journal , but savagely attacked by an anonymous reviewer in the Medical Times and Gazette of 1859 , who dismissed it , in a ridiculous review for which the most likely reason was personal animosity or jealousy , as ‘ a book which is not wanted [ and ] is not even up to the mark of the existing vade-mecums . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not yet up to the standard of EDS , of 12% ( of revenue ) pre-tax , but we aim to get there within the next few years . |
| 13 | She realized she had to go home immediately , although her time was not yet up at the farm . |
| 14 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |