Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debates over the merger had precipitated a number of leadership changes in the old parties and alliances in the months leading up to the final agreement . |
| 2 | Apart from the contributions they both made to raising the general temperature along the international border in the months leading up to the Iraqi onslaught in September 1980 , the first blow appears to have been struck in the same month by Baghdad with a broadcast announcement of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.i The Iraqis had previously given a trial outing to a line of attack which underwent persistent repetition as the war proceeded . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me about Jules , ’ he said as they approached the stone steps leading up to the arched doorway into the château . |
| 4 | The ground level appeared to be slightly higher than he remembered and there was no sign of the seven semi-circular steps leading up to the front door . |
| 5 | When he reached the steps leading up to the front door of the Guild Office , he found the place in darkness , with no sign of life . |
| 6 | Asa braked at the foot of broad steps leading up to the front entrance , walls and towers rising above them . |
| 7 | The research identifies the areas in which they have survived in sufficient abundance to form the basis of a nationwide sample survey designed to illustrate changes in the level , composition and distribution of household wealth in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 8 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |
| 9 | He pushed the sheet of paper away and looked around him , his eyes straying up to the dusty rafters . |
| 10 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
| 11 | Inside , the five-aisled church is immensely tall , its piers extending up to the complicated stellar and geometric ribbed vaults of nave and choir . |
| 12 | Old Congress Poland , the section controlled by the Russians , had about 1,000 miles of track by 1890 ; the Austrian and Prussian sectors had a very highly developed system with over 50 lines running up to the old Russian border . |
| 13 | Acknowledging their weaknesses and limitations to live up to the Christian ideals they realised the strength they would obtain from mutual help and formed themselves into Teams . |
| 14 | The deadline has come and gone for ball companies to sign up to the new and revised agreement to be part of the LTA 's pool of ball sponsors for British tennis events . |
| 15 | There are also problems at Wild Cat Tor , where serious erosion has been caused by climbers going up to the Blue Grass and Singing Kettle buttresses . |
| 16 | It took more than three billion years to evolve up to the human race . |
| 17 | All Western diplomats had left Kabul in the weeks leading up to the Soviet troop withdrawal in February 1989 [ see p. 36448-50 ] , when the United States was predicting the imminent collapse of the Najibullah regime . |
| 18 | Over seven weeks leading up to the big day , Jim Nash , Lorna Powell and Agnes Ramsay had to find out about marquees , promotional material , advertising and food . |
| 19 | None of Doherty 's publications lasted very long , but they were an important part of the general ferment of radical ideas in the years leading up to the Chartist movement . |
| 20 | The next two years led up to the Civil War . |
| 21 | The tan Mercedes sports slipped up to the main door . |
| 22 | Because of the competition we face from the new union , UNISON , we need application forms geared up to the particular industries that we require . |
| 23 | Joe always made sure there were a couple of swings rigged up to the spreaded branches for the children to enjoy . |
| 24 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 25 | As I turned I saw no mark that the Incas had left on this landscape , beyond the forty-five terraces leading up to the thatched hut that I counted before they all became a blur . |
| 26 | The four-and-a-half gallons of oil take about ten minutes to warm up to the minimum 40°C , and we used the time to taxi around the sheltered bay within Calshot Split , checking for debris and driftwood and surveying the area . |
| 27 | The volcano became active on 28 March last year with a series of eruptions building up to the major explosion on 4 April . |
| 28 | Just 20 minutes before , about 60 heavyweight Congress I supporters in three or four jeeps roared up to the unprotected station in a whirlwind of dust . |
| 29 | Ahead of them stairs led up to the main part of the palazzo , where most of the interior had been renovated and the air smelt strongly of paint and plaster and sawdust . |
| 30 | Mr. Beazley invites me to give a very broad interpretation to paragraph 12 of the Kalfelis [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 5565 judgment and to say that all these swap actions fall broadly within the test that it is expedient to hear and determine them together ; he argues that the use of the plural in that paragraph shows that the principle there laid down covers several defendants in groups of actions as well as several defendants in an individual action ; and he submits that there is a risk here of irreconcilable judgments , seeing that both at first instance and thereafter , if the cases proceed up to the appellate process , different decisions may be reached in England and Scotland respectively , on the questions of English law which arise ( there is no suggestion that Scottish law applies to these actions ) . |