Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 2 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 3 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 4 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 5 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 6 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 7 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 8 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 9 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 10 | Afterwards , she ventured to go up to him and say that she was my sister : to which he replied kindly — ; ‘ I can see that you are ’ . |
| 11 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 12 | THE 1980s was the decade when the sleeping giants of the High Street banks tried to wake up to customers ' needs before competitors stole accounts from under their noses . |
| 13 | You 've tried to do the man said , tried to face up to things , the things that we all know trigger you off . |
| 14 | Men seemed to float up to her , encircling her before she reached the bottom step , and she felt Lucenzo 's fingers leave hers as he was crowded out . |
| 15 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |
| 16 | The most likely method involves the leasing of the necessary hardware , and the Scottish case is strengthened by projected payback of well over 100 per cent a year from the savings to the national economy in eliminating or minimising congestion — estimated to cost up to £1.5 billion a year in Scotland . |
| 17 | One of the most important is a 23.11 carat yellow diamond expected to fetch up to £50,000 . |
| 18 | The contradictions were beginning : a man almost more famous than his work , his best work largely ignored , and expected to play up to his own eight by ten . |
| 19 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 20 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 21 | The hearing , expected to last up to a fortnight , is into the deaths of brothers Michael Gerard Hart , 29 , and Martin Joseph Hart , 23 , and their brother-in-law Brian Mullin , 26 , all from the Sixmilecross area of Co Tyrone . |
| 22 | Its three shareholders — Jardine Matheson Holdings , Jardine Strategic , a subsidiary , and Hongkong Land ( see the chart ) — agreed to put up to HK$3 billion ( $385m ) of capital into Connaught , an amount that can be raised at any time . |
| 23 | ‘ I liked the coffee tonight , ’ he said , not allowing that it was the same instant coffee as ever , and to deserve the goodness she determined to go up to Soho tomorrow for some beautiful fresh espresso beans . |
| 24 | At first , any hostility centred on the major new roads which would have to be ploughed across untouched farmland to carry extra traffic to the plant and the proposed hostel which threatened to inject up to 700 unmarried building workers into an isolated rural community . |
| 25 | On Nov. 15 former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams was put on probation for two years , ordered to devote up to 100 hours to community service and fined a token $50 for unlawfully witholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra scandal [ see p. 38521 ] . |
| 26 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 27 | Either way , it 's a shocking lot of money for something which never began to live up to its pre-launch hype . |
| 28 | It was only when it was sold that the bank began to face up to its other problems , ’ said one former executive . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , in a number of respects explanatory surveys failed to match up to the strict requirements of the logic required . |
| 30 | On one occasion she planned to fly up to Scotland for a meeting about the children 's work . |