Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 2 | Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in . |
| 3 | Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in . |
| 4 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 5 | The British public has two days left to wake up to the gravity of the threat . |
| 6 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required . |
| 8 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 9 | After several more rounds , things began to warm up in the ‘ Barge ’ public bar . |
| 10 | The Big Six and other large firms need to face up to the question of whether they want to be professionals or commercial profit-maximising organisations . |
| 11 | The remaining diagrams of Fig.9.1 show how these phenomena continue to show up in the profile . |
| 12 | Tradesmen presenting inflated bills have no interest in countering the popular belief that slow payers tend to end up in the Hudson River wearing cement slippers . |
| 13 | When profits fails to come up to the mark , corners may be cut . |
| 14 | And when your children fail to live up to the hopes you have for them , you imply they are not acceptable people in their own right . |
| 15 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |
| 16 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 17 | The German Greens want to link up with the opposition Social Democrats ( SPD ) for the next federal elections , due in 1994 . |
| 18 | Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal . |
| 19 | Increasing amounts of pesticides , herbicides and fungicides are used in agriculture and these chemicals tend to build up in the soil and are absorbed by our food plants . |
| 20 | Despite the destruction , church services went ahead at the weekend in five churches in Armagh as workmen continued to clear up after the IRA bomb attack on the courthouse . |