Example sentences of "[verb] up to [art] high [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 2 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 3 | This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI . |
| 4 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 5 | In the case of Re C ( a Minor ) ( 1991 ) The Times , 18 November it was stated to be advisable , for example , for the Official Solicitor to continue to act as guardian in public law proceedings relating to a former ward of court where these are transferred up to the High Court . |
| 6 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 7 | The basic characteristic of the H.T. is that the flowers are invariably double with so many petals — sometimes to their detriment in wet weather — that the centre becomes pushed up to a high point — in the classic shape that everybody likes to see . |
| 8 | The angle eased , and Mick smeared up to a high peg from which the guide suggested a rope move . |
| 9 | Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot . |
| 10 | The slope in this new garden is to be terraced around a circular lawn with steps leading up to the higher level . |
| 11 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 12 | I think he 's coming I think he 's coming up to the high week group , what is he ? |
| 13 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 14 | Concentrate instead on your own reputation by continuing to live up to the high standards you always set yourself . |
| 15 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 16 | She had the technique for the role — she sang up to a high F if necessary and could cope very well with the low undertones Salome has — and she had what is most important : a real erotic appeal in the voice . |
| 17 | Franca surveyed her long athletic bare legs and the smudge of the scar on her knee as she reached up to the high shelf of a cupboard . |
| 18 | When the laundry maid had told her he had been married , she had gone up to the high moors and wept . |
| 19 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 20 | The key question was whether , in practice , the numbers of candidates enrolling for the new system would live up to the high expectations . |
| 21 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |
| 22 | Er are the toilets kept up to a high standard ? |
| 23 | And this ‘ vague altruism ’ apparently permeated up to the highest levels in government : for example , Neville Chamberlain , who had been a leading figure in the pre-war National Government 's denial of the problem of child malnutrition , was so shocked by the stories of the children 's condition that he commented to his sister , ‘ I never knew that such conditions existed , and I feel ashamed of having been so ignorant of my neighbours . |
| 24 | Apart from certain exceptional cases , a trustee is entitled to no remuneration for his trouble , unless the terms of the trust so direct , and is liable not only for dishonest dealing with the trust property , but for all loss due either to non-observance of the directions in the settlement and the general rules of law , or to failure on his part to act up to the high standard of care which equity and statute law require of him . |