Example sentences of "[verb] up [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 Still , as long as you 're not thinking about makin' me your fancy piece , I 'll do me best to stand up brave to the world . ’
2 Apart from that , my only quarrel with the production of the book is a number of printing errors , which should be picked up prior to a second edition .
3 Some good news on the A one , the earlier abnormal loads which were heading southbound and causing some quite lengthy delays near to Boroughbridge , they 're now parked up near to Wetherby so they 're not causing too many problems at the moment .
4 Passco of Leith Road was also wound up due to a £9,420 debt owed to Lombard Natwest Factors after repeated demands for payment .
5 This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases .
6 Subsequently in municipal law , bodies other than the sovereign body were recognised as having the power to create legal entities ; a corporation exists within the terms of its Memorandum and Articles of Association , both of which are drawn up prior to incorporation .
7 The budget , which was subject to a Knesset vote later in the year and which assumed US Congressional approval of fresh loan guarantees [ see p. 37749 ] had been drawn up contrary to recommendations by Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i for a US$470 million cut in the military budget .
8 But they had already spoken that morning , their plans drawn up ready to be activated .
9 A STUDENT who turned up naked to classes has been suspended .
10 Where firms produce identical outputs and have identical constant marginal costs equilibrium price ends up equal to this common cost .
11 Existing members of pension schemes set up prior to the 1989 Budget or who joined established schemes before 1 June 1989 may not be affected by the rule and may be entitled to a higher tax-free lump sum .
12 I wish to present a petition containing seven hundred and ninety six signatures organised by the Bell Group community childcare , set up due to lack of affordable child care facilities in the Belgrave area .
13 Loggers argued passionately for allowing cutting to continue on economic grounds , but were opposed by fishing industry representatives , who claimed that the populations of salmon on which their work depended were plummeting as a result of their breeding streams becoming silted up due to logging .
14 Finally , he rang his bell and was pulled up unharmed to the surface , where he delivered the emperor 's words to his master .
15 If these are to be set up prior to the implementation of LMS .
16 A sole practitioner , Mark Ledger , was brought in to head up the Salisbury office , which Ms Harris had set up prior to the merger ; the new firm set up an insolvency department under Geoffrey Morgan ; and 18 months later another sole practitioner , Philip Parmenter , was brought in to set up another office in Witney , Oxfordshire .
17 It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate .
18 In the late nineteenth century , debts had been run up due to the club moving premises twice , plus a falling-off of spectators .
19 Some of the tapes were already packaged up ready to be sent out .
20 I grew up exposed to folk and country music and I play from the heart . ’
21 60 year old Connie Richards , who grew up near to the U S depot where Miller was based clearly remembers meeting an American photographer at a Glen Miller dance .
22 The experience of falling in love is frequently the first intimation for two people that they may end up married to each other .
23 I had n't even got the tape lined up ready to the next , the next one on .
24 Just as it is sensible to place notices in braille at hand level or just above so that they can be easily read with the fingers , so visual material needs to be put up near to eye level if it is to be seen or read without difficulty by all the pupils .
25 The heap may or may not heat up due to aerobic bacterial action , and the end product may be more or less valuable accordingly .
26 Seldom has a team been so fired up prior to a major match , due largely to the pompous comments of Tipperary manager Babs Keating , who should have known better .
27 According to Steve Hinton , the project is currently being held up due to a lack of parts , but the machine should be airborne within a couple of months .
28 Progress had been held up due to a national dispute involving water companies .
29 However , the arrival of Soviet stocks , held up due to production problems , caused prices to fall in September to $8,000 a tonne .
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