Example sentences of "be up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 32 | right erm could I just check something else which was not mentioned er is that is it when you have opened these two Homeworks shops that you 'll be up to a hundred and seventy eight |
| 33 | At any given time during term there could be up to a thousand people on the compound . |
| 34 | A comparable dry desert area of the arctic might yield a similar selection of cryptogams , but there would probably be up to a dozen species of flowering plants scattered among them . |
| 35 | " 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 . |
| 36 | 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 |
| 37 | ‘ 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 . |
| 38 | 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 " . |
| 39 | If anything does happen , it 'll be up to the three of you to deal with it . ’ |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | yeah — they will be up for a hard re-match. the turkish home crowd is known to be wild … |
| 45 | To fit everything in here you have to be up for an early breakfast . |
| 46 | It should be up on the 800 server series in the third quarter . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | I mean , you could be up with the fucking could n't you ? |
| 49 | I honestly believe that because they 're certainly not strong enough erm to be up with the top boys , well they 're not going to disgrace themselves having said that , as I said before , the League 's pretty well evened out , but I think they 'll be at the lower part rather than the top part . |
| 50 | One final boost and he would be up among the true stars , all guidance systems go for a seat in the House of Lords upon retirement . |
| 51 | CHAMPIONS Leeds will be up against a familiar figure tonight — a Gordon Strachan clone ! |
| 52 | For that you have to be up against the real thing . |
| 53 | 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 |
| 54 | He said I would n't be up against an angry mob at my age . |
| 55 | Time they get to about sixteen or seventeen you know they can be up in the top players . |
| 56 | Recession has hit some towns harder than others , and Bookland branches reflected this in sales over the Christmas period ranging from 20% up to declines of 15%l ‘ Overall takings will be up by a few points , but volume will be very slightly down . ’ |
| 57 | I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife |
| 58 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 59 | The Rover GTi race will also be closely contested with Mike Whalley from Holmfirth being up among the leading challengers . |
| 60 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |