Example sentences of "[verb] up to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 3 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 4 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 5 | It sounded extremely good , so I , lying on my back in the sunshine , shouted up to the open windows , ‘ Hello , who 's playing that ? ’ |
| 6 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 7 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 8 | Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them . |
| 9 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 10 | The purpose of this exercise , verbally repeated in funeral orations , was to instil in the young the duty of living up to the glorious achievements of their forefathers . |
| 11 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 12 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 13 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
| 14 | ‘ There will be deaths ! ’ the old woman proclaimed , one bony finger streaking up to the grey clouds . |
| 15 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 16 | In these circumstances the ego simply has no hope of triumphing by measuring up to the ideal standards of the superego , in so far as it exists . |
| 17 | Stuart had noticed him often after that , sometimes on the corner by the students ' union , other times on Princes Street , silhouetted against the store windows , sidling up to the late-night shoppers on Thursdays . |
| 18 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 19 | Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot . |
| 20 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 21 | It is our individual decisions about how we travel , work , eat , heat our homes , wash our clothes ' , take our holidays and go about our daily lives that add up to the growing pressures on our planet . |
| 22 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 23 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
| 24 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 25 | Just the splendid staircase leading up to the three doorways at the entrance and above that the tall windows of the first floor gallery , all open to the sky , gazing on emptiness . |
| 26 | In the case of the UK 's crossroads , for example , that approach pays scant attention to the break-up of the UK 's position at the centre of the Sterling Area and Commonwealth trade in the 1970s , or to the responsibility of unions , management , the financial system and the state for manufacturing industry 's poor productivity growth and hence declining international competitiveness during the long boom leading up to the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s period . |
| 27 | They look up to the English players and try to copy them as they feel that is the right way to behave . |
| 28 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 29 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 30 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |