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 .
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