Example sentences of "is up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His cottage is up on the mountain and he 'll be grazing up there … ’ |
| 2 | Once the application is up on the HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstation family , Hewlett-Packard promises to provide marketing and sales programmes , such as promotions , through its direct sales force , resellers and distributors . |
| 3 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 4 | Juice is up on the top there . |
| 5 | Though after a moment of considering her question , seemed to think that there was no harm in revealing , ‘ I believe the dog does not take well to city life — he is up at the house . ’ |
| 6 | His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him . |
| 7 | The voice is still languishing , wasted in its rumpled bed , but the guitar is up with the sun , out the window and scaling such dizzy heights that it manages to drag the chorus into a deliciously wounded country yodel . |
| 8 | In future , schools will publish more information in a comparable format , so that parents can see easily whether their child 's school is up with the best . |
| 9 | Matt is competing in Germany in the European Cup and is up with the leaders … |
| 10 | Time is Up for the Chauvinists |
| 11 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 12 | The choice of timber is up to the entrant ; the only proviso being that the two pieces must be consistent . |
| 13 | Unfortunately minor works grants are only ‘ discretionary ’ , ie it is up to the council whether or not you receive help . |
| 14 | Other types of work may qualify for a discretionary grant , which means it is up to the council whether you get a grant . |
| 15 | Our lawyers and judges will never turn off this mad process which , for them , is a fountain of dollars and a source of power : it is up to the Press to publicise civilised European libel procedures and insist that we get them too . |
| 16 | No other sort of mind is up to the demands of the system , which needs to seem to have judicial impartiality and a rocklike permanance while also being quickly responsive to the latest political fads . |
| 17 | It is up to the discretion of the neighbourhood policemen whether or not they respond to incidents reported over the personal radio , although major occurrences such as bomb alerts and fights , tend to attract them , as well as incidents that are nearby . |
| 18 | The rest is up to the children , music included ; as Runswick and music director Terry Edwards discovered on their rounds of the schools at an earlier stage in the project , the teachers had only to supervise , rarely to prompt or invent-solid preparation indeed for the GCSE 's new emphasis on composition . |
| 19 | It is up to the authorities to decide . ’ |
| 20 | It is up to the authorities to decide . ’ |
| 21 | In reality , the choice is up to the five countries with permanent seats on the Security Council — America , Britain , China , France and the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | Mr Delors insists that it is up to the pontifical authorities to check that everything is above board . |
| 23 | It is up to the players . |
| 24 | Now it is up to the Prime Minister to promote this lively Irish peer — he does not use his title of 6th Earl of Kilmorey — for all he has done , with his wife Cissy , as a mere Under-Secretary at Stormont since 1985 . |
| 25 | ICI 's maternity provisions include 52 weeks ' flexible leave ( ie the proportion taken before and after the birth is up to the mother ) . |
| 26 | If there is sufficient clearance between spring an bump stop , then leave alone , but as you ask about extended shackles , I suspect the axle is up to the bump stops . |
| 27 | After running the engine for a few miles , the gauge is up to the red . |
| 28 | The ending of the book , is , she says , fairly open ; it is up to the reader to visualise their own ending . |
| 29 | After that , there being no predestination , it is up to the human being concerned to deal with the problems as they arise — successfully or otherwise . |
| 30 | Here the Tebbit school of thought seems to be saying , ‘ It is up to the individual to build a new world through his own efforts . ’ |