Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Gloucestershire break-ins were up by 30% , second only to Cheshire . |
| 2 | It was all over after 41 laps when Hill 's engine blew … his hopes and those of all the home fans were up in the smoke … |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific , including Japan . |
| 4 | New annual premiums were up from $51.6m to $57.2m and single premiums from $189.3m to $334.4m . |
| 5 | I was tempted to curtsey in return but I was n't sure if my knees were up to it . |
| 6 | COMPLAINTS against the Lothian and Borders police force were up by a quarter last year , deputy chief constable Hector Clark told councillors yesterday . |
| 7 | Susan giggled when the two lads were up at the bar . |
| 8 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 9 | There were suggestions that the death toll was up to five times higher than officially stated . |
| 10 | She knew Donna was up to something . |
| 11 | Scottish Hydro was up from 79p partly paid on Thursday morning to 98p at the close on Friday . |
| 12 | Apart from performances which have left the team knocking on relegation 's door , revelations on Robert Maxwell 's death that the club was up to four million pounds in debt , stunned the terraces . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd just come home from a cruise and the mail was up to my knees . |
| 14 | There was also the precedent established by the British when the ARB refused to validate the US certificate of airworthiness of the Boeing 707 in its original form and the manufacturers had to design and fit an additional dorsal fin to improve its ‘ Dutch roll ’ characteristics before Dai Davis , the ARB chief test pilot , was satisfied that the aircraft was up to UK certification standards . |
| 15 | Like a , a good example the , the the ninety three one , the ninety two one rather this year was a good example because there was erm a titanic battle in Old Harlow where the leader of the council Richard was up for re- election . |
| 16 | Even Woolstaton was up to the |
| 17 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 18 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 19 | The need to know what Barney was up against had become overwhelming . |
| 20 | Chairman John Haynes said the group 's performance had been achieved with little help from either the UK or the US economies ( although the latter was showing a significant increase in retail spending in the fourth quarter ) : turnover was up by less than 2% to £11.1m . |
| 21 | The socialist vote was up by more than 30 per cent on its showing in the 1990 poll . |
| 22 | Sinn Fein 's vote was up by 1.2pc ( 5pc in Belfast ) , yielding 51 seats , and although the DUP 's fell by a half per cent overall , it was up 3.2pc in Belfast . |
| 23 | He 'd always gone to the fields long before Edward was up for school , but today he was still wrapping his lunchtime bread and cheese in a cloth . |
| 24 | So , since for the present Neil preferred to lie low and find out just what Ewen was up to , I could not tell Mrs McDougall of Ewen 's night-time visit . |
| 25 | As a place to observe what the DEA was up to in Nicosia , Coleman found the Eurame Trading Company ideal , but from his very first day on the job , he had an uncomfortable feeling that the same might be true for the opposition . |
| 26 | In the more recent squad of 35 the figure was up to four after Sale 's David Baldwin had been brought in as cover for Dooley . |
| 27 | This meant that she was in the clinic , she 'd had the scan , she was ovulating , her feet were up in stirrups — they needed my sample there and then . ’ |
| 28 | Sales volumes in May were up on a year ago for the fifth month in a row but they remained well below normal for the time of year , he said . |
| 29 | He said there was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up the Scotch Corner Hotel and Croft Spa Hotel had gone into receivership and The Solberge and Kirkby Fleetham Hall were up for sale . |
| 30 | Suddenly her senses were up in flames . |