Example sentences of "were [adv] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ . |
| 2 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 3 | After a brief stay at Kyle we were soon up to the house and burn near Sandaig Lighthouse , the undisclosed setting , I suspect , of Gavin Maxwell 's otter book " Ring of Bright Water " , later to be filmed . |
| 4 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 5 | Her parents were always up at the front . |
| 6 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 7 | ‘ She does n't get out much , ’ said Shirley flatly : a statement at once accurate and wonderfully , gloriously misleading : ‘ she does n't get out much ’ , an acceptable phrase , a dull little coin , an everyday coin , suggesting a mild , an ordinary , a commonplace disinclination , for in Northam ‘ getting out ’ was in many circles regarded as suspect , as improper , as leading to no good ( those making merry in Breasbrough , for example , were undoubtedly up to no good ) — a freak tolerated in the young , though with much grumbling , but considered dissolute , wayward , against nature in their elders . |