Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up to the [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI . |
| 4 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 5 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 6 | In the case of the UK 's crossroads , for example , that approach pays scant attention to the break-up of the UK 's position at the centre of the Sterling Area and Commonwealth trade in the 1970s , or to the responsibility of unions , management , the financial system and the state for manufacturing industry 's poor productivity growth and hence declining international competitiveness during the long boom leading up to the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s period . |
| 7 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 8 | Extrinsic feedback is provided by the teacher in the form of information about the success or failure of the practice to match up to the standard performance . |
| 9 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 10 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 11 | But when parliament woke up to the electronic age and first allowed its proceedings to be broadcast in 1978 , nobody was sure whether those broadcasts were also privileged . |
| 12 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 13 | You need to be in a strong mood to face up to the unvarnished realism of these performances but , once entered into , they are absolutely gripping . |
| 14 | The driver and fireman ran up to the inert body ; too late , the man was dead . |
| 15 | The party 's chair , Sara Parkin , said : " Unlike the other political parties , this manifesto faces up to the real issues " . |
| 16 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 17 | In the period leading up to the actual fight , first-time fighters are suddenly stricken with nervous tension . |
| 18 | He analysed local government spending and labour-force figures in the post-war period leading up to the late 1970s . |
| 19 | The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion . |
| 20 | WAR CLOUDS OVER EUROPE read the banner headlines at the opening of Reed 's earlier film , Bank Holiday ( 1938 ) , a picture whose setting suggests escapism but whose narrative argues for the need to face up to the dark side of life in order to find meaningful happiness . |
| 21 | Like spinning tops we dash from from one emergency to another , always citing them as an excuse for our unfailing refusal to face up to the global urgency staring at us |
| 22 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
| 23 | From behind the church a ploughed field slanted up to the uncompromising skyline . |
| 24 | Alternatively they may be filled with water made up to the appropriate strength of degreaser or caustic cleaner and heated to boiling point . |
| 25 | The argument is put forward that if a badger associates humans with food it may one day wander up to the wrong person , with fatal results . |
| 26 | He gave a thumbs-up sign then replaced it and manoeuvred his wheelchair round behind his desk where he tapped his security code into the IBM computer linked up to the central data bank elsewhere in the building . |
| 27 | ‘ There will be deaths ! ’ the old woman proclaimed , one bony finger streaking up to the grey clouds . |
| 28 | The tusks branched , one limb reaching up to the leafy mass on the head , the other reaching down , becoming tendrillar , tendrils curling round the torso and the arms , then down the spindly legs , supplying lobate oak-leaves as a covering for the scored , scoured , bark-like flesh below . |
| 29 | One finger pointed up to the bright flood-light that was showing me all this . |
| 30 | I had never heard Pike sing in real life , so I could n't tell how this spirit voice matched up to the real one . |