Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] up to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also expected that IBM may want to shed up to a further 30,000 people from its 300,000-strong pay roll , with undisguised lay-offs clearly on the agenda . |
| 2 | Eventually these persons might have to face up to a period of crisis , of self-examination , and so achieve ego-identity by route C. However , foreclosure does offer an escape route and an individual might postpone indefinitely any real self-examination by clinging rigidly to his [ or her ] beliefs and values ( route D ) . |
| 3 | You may have to face up to a display of feelings of hurt or rejection ; but if your parent is a naturally unselfish person ( and not mentally impaired ) who had simply failed to realise your need for this degree of privacy and emotional ‘ living-space ’ , she will probably be only too anxious to co-operate . |
| 4 | By then governments may have woken up to a yet more radical option . |
| 5 | Dozens of men with hand tools may have taken up to a year to dig out the brook banks and build arches and canal on top . |
| 6 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 7 | None of them has been met , yet today he says that he would have signed up to a single currency without any opt-out clause . |
| 8 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 9 | If the hon. Gentleman wants a level playing field between Scotland and England , he will have to face up to a substantial drop in spending by central Government in Scotland . |