Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a a a a as you say that the problem is that erm as this process gets under way and er i i s so , I , I think it 's , it 's not just absolute egalitarian in that everybody will get the same , I think there was an assumption that there would be enough for everybody becoming up to a middle peasant status . |
| 2 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
| 3 | If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But by walking up to the eastern corrie , Coire an Dothaidh , fear is not an issue ; only leg muscle . |
| 6 | Whereas a statement about services to follow will not be rendered ‘ false ’ by the services not matching up to the earlier statement , a subsequent statement which is false when made can attract liability . |
| 7 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 11 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | LIVING UP TO THE MACHO IMAGE |
| 14 | Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ There will be deaths ! ’ the old woman proclaimed , one bony finger streaking up to the grey clouds . |
| 17 | ( It is also remarkable how commonly ideas similar to his have kept re-surfacing up to the present day , often without any apparent awareness on the part of their authors that Schleiermacher had already developed them , or that the subsequent movement of theology was to expose serious inadequacies in them . ) |
| 18 | Looking up to the blue sky , she watched the many birds flying overhead , chattering and screaming as they passed out of sight . |
| 19 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 20 | She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day . |
| 21 | Like Cry Freedom , A Dry White Season shows a comfortable white middle-aged man gradually waking up to the vicious inhumanity of the apartheid system . |
| 22 | My guess is that I am not alone in waking up to the stunning brutality of boxing . |
| 23 | ‘ Jansher was warned by the players ’ chairman , Phil Whitlock , for not turning up to the official function at the Singapore Open last month . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 'm going up to the top floor . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 30 | Sampling might also involve time phasing as in attempting to detect opinion trends leading up to a general election . |