Example sentences of "[verb] up to the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 6 | The plain-clothed cockney sidles up to the moustached man , grinning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Caro peered up to the black sky . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It sounded extremely good , so I , lying on my back in the sunshine , shouted up to the open windows , ‘ Hello , who 's playing that ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Labour , by signing up to the Social Chapter and introducing a minimum wage of £3.40 an hour , will make flexible jobs for women with families far too expensive for most employers to contemplate . |
| 20 | All prisoners serving a year or more will be put on licence when released and supervised up to the three-quarter point of their sentence and , for some sex offenders until the end of their sentence ; |
| 21 | As I arrived a tractor pulled up with sacks of freshly-picked hops that would be carried up to the main floor of the building to be dried . |
| 22 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 23 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 24 | But by walking up to the eastern corrie , Coire an Dothaidh , fear is not an issue ; only leg muscle . |
| 25 | Whereas a statement about services to follow will not be rendered ‘ false ’ by the services not matching up to the earlier statement , a subsequent statement which is false when made can attract liability . |
| 26 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 27 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 28 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 29 | Just 20 minutes before , about 60 heavyweight Congress I supporters in three or four jeeps roared up to the unprotected station in a whirlwind of dust . |
| 30 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |