Example sentences of "be up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The God books to be found , yeah they 're up in a high place . |
2 | Where are you then , yeah , but , you 're up in the high |
3 | where are one , we 're up in the high are n't we ? |
4 | From a black perspective you 're up against a white power structure and it does n't really matter whether you 're being beaten up or abused by the police or by a group of kids on the street , it all comes down to the same thing — racism . |
5 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
6 | Do n't be too quick to condemn or criticise people you think are up to no good or are getting special treatment for one reason or another . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ We are up against a substantial amount of red tape , ’ O'Donovan said . |
11 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
12 | Or they are up against an anti-terrorist policy so cynical that its devisers are prepared to sacrifice a certain amount of civilian life in order to strip the terrorists of any legitimacy . |
13 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
14 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
18 | ‘ 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
21 | " 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 . |
22 | 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 |
23 | ‘ 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 . |
24 | 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 " . |
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 | It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war . |
27 | The implication for the client of finding a title to attendance allowance and the severe disability premium or invalid care allowance could be up to an extra £78.60 and is therefore an alternative option to residential care . |
28 | Yeah , then you I know , but John I mean you 'd be up for a good couple of grand if you did stick it out . |
29 | yeah — they will be up for a hard re-match. the turkish home crowd is known to be wild … |
30 | To fit everything in here you have to be up for an early breakfast . |