Example sentences of "[vb -s] up to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 3 | The plain-clothed cockney sidles up to the moustached man , grinning . |
| 4 | Remember , a loss of between 2 and 4 lb per month adds up to a 24–48 lb drop in a year , 48–96 lb over two years . |
| 5 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 6 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 7 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 8 | That adds up to a great confrontation in today 's championship clash with title-holders Essex , with England captain Graham Gooch making an early return to Old Trafford where he hit one of the great Test centuries on Monday . |
| 9 | Clearly it all adds up to a great season ahead for the fans , who fought to keep speedway in Swindon . |
| 10 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 11 | It all adds up to a better deal , for your managers , your training budget and for effective corporate management development . |
| 12 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 13 | Our friendly bar with its extensive range of beers , real ales and cocktails , combined with the latest music , dancing and entertainment , adds up to a memorable evening in a convivial atmosphere . |
| 14 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 15 | Cos each group adds up to a dotted quaver . |
| 16 | This seldom adds up to a coherent investment plan , but may be more simply described as a way of keeping things going until better days arrive . |
| 17 | This all adds up to a bleak picture for corporate UK . |
| 18 | Which all in all adds up to a Mediterranean type of diet — with porridge ! |
| 19 | We 've been frozen out there , and that order was worth a couple of million sterling , and that adds up to a hefty pile of wage packets . |
| 20 | Maintaining safety in the home is an expensive business and , for families with children , the purchase of recommended safety equipment — such as car safety seats , stair gates , a playpen and a cooker guard — adds up to a considerable sum . |
| 21 | This little difference adds up to a large saving . |
| 22 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it all adds up to an impressive document . ’ |
| 24 | It all adds up to an awesome task , but , come what may , the ‘ Buns ’ are determined to enjoy themselves and , in the words of secretary Allen Morris , ‘ savour the moment . ’ |
| 25 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 26 | It all adds up to an exotic holiday of pure Turkish Delight . |
| 27 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 28 | EAST END gangster Harry Shand ( terrific , tough-talking turn by Bob Hoskins ) wakes up to the new age and discovers the IRA muscling in on his turf . |
| 29 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 30 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |