Example sentences of "[verb] up to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans .
2 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 ! ’
3 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 .
4 As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill .
5 These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh .
6 So a a a a as you say that the problem is that erm as this process gets under way and er i i s so , I , I think it 's , it 's not just absolute egalitarian in that everybody will get the same , I think there was an assumption that there would be enough for everybody becoming up to a middle peasant status .
7 They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top .
8 This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships .
9 Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children .
10 The plain-clothed cockney sidles up to the moustached man , grinning .
11 Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Just as a human baby may draw comfort from sucking a dummy , so occasionally a baby elephant will sidle up to a young female and suck her milkless nipple .
15 Caro peered up to the black sky .
16 Don Shears ( Avon ) moved up to the 55 age group where , seeded number 4 following his unbeaten run in the Dubler Cup , he reached the semi-final to give the ultimate runner-up , Gordon Davis ( USA ) a tough fight after battling through three exhausting rounds .
17 These two incidents hardly added up to a minimal knowledge of the principality .
18 All the little steps have added up to a high achievement .
19 The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack .
20 This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI .
21 In the claim we are showing quite clearly , and we have won up to the present stage — six years to show that women 's work in the RVH is equal to men 's work .
22 It sounded extremely good , so I , lying on my back in the sunshine , shouted up to the open windows , ‘ Hello , who 's playing that ? ’
23 Fig. 3 showed that the clones of RAP74 whose C-terminal sequences were deleted up to the 171th amino acid residue ( lanes 2,3 and 4 ) stimulated the CAT activity to the same extent as the wild type clone , but further deletion of the C-terminal sequence up to the 128th residue resulted in a complete loss of the CAT activity ( lane 5 ) .
24 Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class .
25 On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her .
26 Lifted up to a new level and a new nearness to our Lord Jesus Christ .
27 Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate .
28 All modems hook up to a serial port .
29 What would 've happened if absolute egalitarianism had been pursued and absolute egalitarianism had worked and there was enough land for everybody to come up to a middle peasant status and you 'd created an absolutely e equal society ?
30 And er what I see of the modern teacher I 'm probably looking out with three different eyes , they do n't seem to come up to the same standing as those men were , at all because one thing that I I remember very vividly about them all , and they were family men , what I call family men .
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