Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 2 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 3 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |
| 4 | At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections . |
| 5 | Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television . |
| 6 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 7 | Lloyd 's has belatedly woken up to the need for change . |
| 8 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 9 | Im not impressed — he has nt lived up to the hype . |
| 10 | As for multi-processing , Bull says it has recently woken up to the fact that it has a lead over most of its competitors — the Motorola-based DPX/2 line has supported symmetrical multi-processing with up to four processors for years , and now claims to have cornered a leading 20% share of the symmetrical multi-processing market . |
| 11 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 12 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 13 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |
| 14 | Maidstone had now stepped up to the bar beside Sandison but he still did not look to be at ease . |
| 15 | The second-half had n't lived up to the football of the first but Tranmere played far better on Friday with less reward . |
| 16 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 17 | Hundreds of new age travellers have already turned up to the site . |
| 18 | Four companies have already signed up to the scheme , and the Centre has the capacity to look after three or four more — it has already had about 20 applications . |
| 19 | This could either indicate that online services are failing to be useful , which is doubtful given the significant use that planners make of them , or that the online services have not lived up to the planners ' expectations . |
| 20 | Indeed I have often chided myself with the realization that I have not lived up to the standards that they set . |
| 21 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
| 22 | Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together . |