Example sentences of "up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty also has its own checks which ensure that all its major reports are passed through several levels of approvals , often up to the Secretary General himself . |
| 2 | Hitherto a shameful brothel man , Salim is uplifted by their meetings in his flat : ‘ My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies . ’ |
| 3 | Nearly all the stone steps in the first flight up to the half-landing were broken , with jagged edges where bits of tread had fallen away . |
| 4 | Theatres were closed during the Cromwellian period , but with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 came Court comedy and the beginning of the ‘ comedy of manners ’ which has , in one way or another , been popular right up to the present day . |
| 5 | The results of isolationism in terms of human suffering were massive emigration ( some 20,000 every year to Britain up to the 1960s ) , and industrial and commercial underdevelopment until the late 1950s . |
| 6 | Up to the late 1960s , catholic nationalists were split between two main political groupings . |
| 7 | And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement . |
| 8 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |
| 9 | In Western-style cooking , it 's up to the consumer to combine the ingredients . |
| 10 | Come up to the vicarage and I 'll make you a cup of … |
| 11 | Mr Catlett was deputized to ‘ keep an eye on everything ’ while Perkins went up to the vicarage to make his 'phone call . |
| 12 | Conroy continued up to the next landing . |
| 13 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 14 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 15 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 16 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 17 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 18 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 19 | Furthermore , he will know that his contemporaries are not really too keen on its revelation : indeed they may well argue that the police have research facilities of their own which are geared up to the internal needs and interests of the institution ( Benyon 1988 : 21 ) . |
| 20 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 21 | Faces turned , bodies gave way a little , and he went up to the Cross and took the crumpled sheet . |
| 22 | ‘ Does James Flemyng keep you up to the mark ? ’ |
| 23 | A vile joke — he could as well sprout wings and fly straight up to the sun as find that sum ! |
| 24 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 25 | She tipped her face up to the sun . |
| 26 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 27 | I looked up to the skies for no reason I can now remember , probably a spot of rain or a ray of sunshine . |
| 28 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 29 | In fact , the opportunity for Edberg to play ( up to the final ) one of the 7 other players entered with a top fifty ranking , was denied him when first , Lendl slumped to defeat against Grant Connell in three sets , then Chang and Jarryd lost to Wheaton , while , in the Swede 's half of the draw , Rotsagno lost to John Fitzgerald and Woodbridge fell to the unseeded Pat Cash . |
| 30 | 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 . |