Example sentences of "[to-vb] up to a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 2 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 3 | The 1930 Act gave the Education Minister power to nominate up to a quarter of the membership of Education Committees in Northern Ireland ( it being understood that the nominees would be clergymen ) ; regulated the membership of School Management Committees ; and required local education authorities to provide Bible instruction in any school if the parents of ten or more children demanded it . |
| 4 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 5 | He had either supported Michael Heseltine in his leadership bid ( ‘ disloyal to dear Mrs Thatcher ’ ) or had failed to turn up to a multitude of constituency functions , wine and cheeses , bring and buys . |
| 6 | The moribund mainframe market is about to wake up to a flurry of developments in the storage area , with Hitachi Data Systems Inc preparing to announce a Symmetrix-type disk array for mainframes on May 25 , and IBM Corp following up a week later with launch of the 3390-9 disk drive , which is now expected to be accompanied by a new 3990-4 controller . |
| 7 | I like to wake up to a cup of Assam , a very robust tea , or a strong blend of African and Indian teas of the type that makes a good English breakfast blend ; in the evening I prefer to drink Keemun or Lapsang Souchong . |
| 8 | Mr Schrodinger informs you that the customer is prepared to pay up to a maximum of £20,000 for the order . |
| 9 | You may have to face up to a display of feelings of hurt or rejection ; but if your parent is a naturally unselfish person ( and not mentally impaired ) who had simply failed to realise your need for this degree of privacy and emotional ‘ living-space ’ , she will probably be only too anxious to co-operate . |
| 10 | Eventually these persons might have to face up to a period of crisis , of self-examination , and so achieve ego-identity by route C. However , foreclosure does offer an escape route and an individual might postpone indefinitely any real self-examination by clinging rigidly to his [ or her ] beliefs and values ( route D ) . |
| 11 | Our students are encouraged to spend up to a year of their LLB abroad under the ERASMUS link . |
| 12 | LISTREL will then prompt the user to enter up to a maximum of 32 valid charge codes which are to be included in the Listing . |
| 13 | The 1959 Defence White Paper announced that the Army would be allowed to recruit up to a ceiling of 180,000 ‘ to ensure that its strength shall not fall below the planned figure of 165,000 ’ — a lame excuse since this requirement was just as valid in 1957 . |