Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It took more than three billion years to evolve up to the human race . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | Tolkien wanted his characters in The Lord of the Rings to live up to the same high standard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | IXI says the initiative will also encourage users to move up to the latest 1.2 release of Motif — many are sticking with version 1.1 for the foreseeable future , unconvinced of the robustness of the new environment ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 9 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 10 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |