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Example sentences of "be up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	We 're up on the third floor here .
2	The God books to be found , yeah they 're up in a high place .
3	Where are you then , yeah , but , you 're up in the high
4	where are one , we 're up in the high are n't we ?
5	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 .
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	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 .
8	It 's estimated there are up to a thousand homeless people in Swindon … and the Breakfast Club is seen as one way to make life more tolerable …
9	There are up to a thousand differs of keys bought with these types of locks .
10	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 .
11	Maybe now their sugar levels are up to the right level for chitter-chatter .
12	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 .
13	‘ Meanwhile , until we know what the Kamalians are up to the more people we have on the job the better .
14	For those who came in late , the essay titles are up on the first year notice board .
15	As it is , we are up on the same period last year , but sales through the till are down by nearly 8% . ’
16	After only 20 doublings , which does n't take very long , we are up in the millions .
17	‘ We are up against a substantial amount of red tape , ’ O'Donovan said .
18	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 .
19	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 .
20	Detective Constables Rowse and Calder and Detective Sergeant Bourne are up before the next Promotion Board and your reports have n't gone in yet . ’
21	Company boss Peter Johnson revealed that pre-tax profits are up by a third and also forecast a cracker of a year ahead .
22	Now it , it does sound , ninety five per cent sound a lot , but the actual numbers involved are up from a hundred and twenty three to two hundred and forty .
23	Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area .
24	This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day .
25	Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty .
26	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 .
27	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 .
28	‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly .
29	‘ 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 .
30	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 .