Example sentences of "[to-vb] up to " in BNC.
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| 31 | As faith in the League declined , some called for a new alliance system — and a new Government — to stand up to fascist aggression . |
| 32 | Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’ |
| 33 | She really ought to stand up to him . |
| 34 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 35 | ‘ She 's proud and wants to convey her determination to stand up to him . |
| 36 | They spoke after the borough council 's planning committee decided last night to stand up to the Home Office by objecting to the £14 million expansion , intended to ease the prison 's long-standing and often chronic overcrowding problem . |
| 37 | Maxine Johnson , who had been uneasy at his interview , was worried about whether Sutton would ‘ be able to stand up to Pilger ’ . |
| 38 | I thought Bobby Carter was a brave man to stand up to Billy , and him twice his size . ’ |
| 39 | He was about to stand up to the policeman when Duncan spoke . |
| 40 | With output recovering , the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity 's threat to call a general strike . |
| 41 | By the late seventeenth century , with its economic base vulnerable and its spiritual authority flouted , the Church was ill equipped to stand up to an increasingly dynamic State . |
| 42 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 43 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 44 | Such computers have , of course , to stand up to more extreme environmental conditions than in the application areas described above . |
| 45 | And he would try to stand up to it , the sudden blast of her love ; she could feel a brave little determination to withstand it , and even an intention to return it . |
| 46 | From her came such a whiff of defeat that Alice had to force herself to stand up to it . |
| 47 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 48 | Theories that fail to stand up to observational and experimental tests must be eliminated and replaced by further speculative conjectures . |
| 49 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 50 | This aspect of the writing of reports has been exaggerated to impress on you that every report , even the least important , must be able to stand up to expert cross-examination . |
| 51 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 52 | ‘ I wo n't be able to stand up to them like you , Adam . ’ |
| 53 | No one seemed able to stand up to her , to dent her . |
| 54 | The girls had always worked quickly and willingly but nothing satisfied Miss Meers and Mrs Dyson seemed afraid to stand up to her . |
| 55 | ‘ We went a few rounds when I was big enough to stand up to him . ’ |
| 56 | Love wo n't change the history of the world ( that nonsense about Cleopatra 's nose is strictly for sentimentalists ) , but it will do something much more important : teach us to stand up to history , to ignore its chin-out strut . |
| 57 | All you have to do is to be brave enough to stand up to those putting pressure on you or taking advantage of your desire to keep everyone happy . |
| 58 | The Office of Fair Trading chose not to examine this market and the Hatton Garden traders have not always been able to stand up to Ratner 's negotiating muscle . |
| 59 | Before they met , Marshall announced the absurd news that enquiries in the rag trade had revealed that Trilyn , notorious for its inability to stand up to heavy wear , was most frequently used for trouser pockets . |
| 60 | Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment . |