Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 3 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 4 | ‘ There will be deaths ! ’ the old woman proclaimed , one bony finger streaking up to the grey clouds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Stuart had noticed him often after that , sometimes on the corner by the students ' union , other times on Princes Street , silhouetted against the store windows , sidling up to the late-night shoppers on Thursdays . |
| 7 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 8 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 9 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Just the splendid staircase leading up to the three doorways at the entrance and above that the tall windows of the first floor gallery , all open to the sky , gazing on emptiness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This unthreatening introduction into discussing a marital difficulty and an explanation that a combination of therapy approaches , that is managing the child and facing up to the marital disagreements , is likely to be most effective and help the parents understand the link . |
| 14 | As a result , their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement . |
| 15 | The Ahlbergs have been accused of not facing up to the harsh realities of life , of being too cosy and sweet , but their latest picture book , Bye Bye Baby , published today , breaks the mould . |
| 16 | With the candles and red roses of Valentines 's Day cleared away , couples are again facing up to the grim realities of living together . |
| 17 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 18 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 19 | I then thought of running up to the local police station , but I was worried that a train might have come . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He pushed the sheet of paper away and looked around him , his eyes straying up to the dusty rafters . |
| 22 | Workshops housing up to a dozen frames had been introduced into the villages by the beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria , but the craft remained essentially a cottage industry for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Landmark Trust is always willing to consider new candidates for restoration and is often restoring up to a dozen buildings at any one time . |
| 25 | Skilled stalkers are shooting up to a dozen hinds a day . |
| 26 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |