Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this exercise , verbally repeated in funeral orations , was to instil in the young the duty of living up to the glorious achievements of their forefathers . |
| 2 | The strain of living up to the lofty concept of marriage that they have invented is tiring , at times , and she is a busy woman . |
| 3 | History is the study of the past using documents and inscriptions as evidence , and historians have recorded and interpreted events from the earliest days of writing up to the present day . |
| 4 | 1 People with anxiety disorders may have exaggerated , irrational beliefs concerning the consequences of facing up to the feared or difficult situation . |
| 5 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 6 | I then thought of running up to the local police station , but I was worried that a train might have come . ’ |
| 7 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 8 | As the leavening of hardened veterans became sparser and sparser , so the pathetic eighteen-year-olds fresh from the parade grounds in the Fatherland showed themselves less and less capable of standing up to the remorseless demands of the Verdun fighting . |
| 9 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 10 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 11 | My guess is that I am not alone in waking up to the stunning brutality of boxing . |
| 12 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 13 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 14 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 15 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
| 16 | But by walking up to the eastern corrie , Coire an Dothaidh , fear is not an issue ; only leg muscle . |
| 17 | Labour , by signing up to the Social Chapter and introducing a minimum wage of £3.40 an hour , will make flexible jobs for women with families far too expensive for most employers to contemplate . |
| 18 | In these circumstances the ego simply has no hope of triumphing by measuring up to the ideal standards of the superego , in so far as it exists . |