Example sentences of "[to-vb] up to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of 20 , Gedge was willing to placate his parents by taking on such a squalid job , but just a few years later , he was more than prepared to stand up to their well-intentioned pressure . |
| 2 | Now , remembering all this , she wondered how she 'd had the temerity to stand up to him that morning . |
| 3 | Among them is the failure of second-vote support for a party to match up to its first-vote support . |
| 4 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 5 | Either way , it 's a shocking lot of money for something which never began to live up to its pre-launch hype . |
| 6 | This SL comes with the world 's first five-speed automatic gearbox but fails to live up to its high price and long waiting list |
| 7 | Remember that the creative team will be held responsible if the finished film or advertisement fails to live up to its initial promise . |
| 8 | Even so-called tax havens may fail to live up to their privileged reputation . |
| 9 | Under these conditions , however good the heuristic estimate , the algorithm will keep abandoning paths that fail to live up to their initial promise in favour of untried paths that are promising a little more than they will deliver ( Pearl 1984 ) . |
| 10 | To live up to his low opinion of her . |
| 11 | Yet once again yesterday England 's spinners were largely ineffective — with slow left-armer Phil Tufnell failing again to live up to his pre-tour billing as the tourists most likely match winner . |
| 12 | Yet again yesterday England 's spinners were largely ineffective , with slow left-armer Phil Tufnell failing again to live up to his pre-tour billing as the tourists most likely match-winner . |
| 13 | He does n't like it when other people fail to live up to his own standards of professionalism . ’ |
| 14 | And I think that in this sense his life was a failure , that he was never able to live up to his scientific naturalism , that he was never able to integrate his romantic nature with his view of the nature of the universe . |
| 15 | A warrant for his arrest was issued by Norwich County Court in August when he failed to turn up to his own bankruptcy hearing . |
| 16 | After a month , the pain began to ease slightly and Lisa was able to get up to her own room with Janet 's help . |
| 17 | Forced to face up to her own fears and failed expectations , it was as if Belinda had to deal with two babies : one was the theoretical idea of a baby with Down 's syndrome , the other was Sophie herself . |
| 18 | How could she let these people down because she was too afraid to face up to her own weaknesses ? |
| 19 | It was only when it was sold that the bank began to face up to its other problems , ’ said one former executive . |
| 20 | The previous owners had acquired the property for redevelopment , and only a public inquiry in 1985 forced the health board to face up to its environmental responsibilities as the owner of listed buildings . |
| 21 | You get your own ego to face up to its own problems and to make its own decisions , er as I mentioned before a very painful process and a , and a , and a rather gruelling one . |
| 22 | It is not enough to bring in an employee assistance programme if the company fails to face up to its own part in stress mismanagement . |
| 23 | KEEPER John Lukic tonight has to face up to his bizarre error that punished Leeds heavily against Rangers in Glasgow . |
| 24 | I realised then how our own personal embarrassment and refusal to face up to our own mortality prevents us from behaving to others in a natural and human way . |
| 25 | Let us assume that the directive is fully supported by the Government , who do not wish to amend one jot or comma of it and who are willing to sign up to its immediate implementation . |