Example sentences of "up to the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement . |
| 2 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 3 | ‘ But at the end of the day it 's up to the 100,000 citizens of Derry to act as sales people for their city . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 6 | Quietly , unhesitatingly — just like that — he faces up to the moral consequences of his realization . |
| 7 | The incomparable off-roader , its restyled interior also sets new luxury standards for a leisure vehicle — they 're fully up to the rich appointments of a Mercedes-Benz saloon . |
| 8 | Join this point diagonally up to the outer edges of tab . |
| 9 | Tabitha Jute , remember , had not yet been up to the other floors of Plenty . |
| 10 | Labour will set the pace in pressing for international action to safeguard the ozone layer , to combat acid rain , to tackle the problem of global warming , to face up to the environmental needs of the poorest people of the world . |
| 11 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 12 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 13 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 14 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 15 | The Chandos digital recording , made in the SNO Centre , Glasgow , is up to the best standards of the house , naturally balanced with a fine bloom on the sound and vivid detail . |
| 16 | When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert . |
| 17 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 18 | Halsey , Heath and Ridge have argued persuasively that the post-war education system 's achievements never did match up to the meritocratic ideals of its creators . |
| 19 | Separate toilets for younger children , staggered playtimes or separate playgrounds for under-fives also mark schools that are really gearing themselves up to the educational needs of these younger pupils . |
| 20 | The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics . |
| 21 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 22 | These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required . |
| 24 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | With the candles and red roses of Valentines 's Day cleared away , couples are again facing up to the grim realities of living together . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |