Example sentences of "[vb -s] up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is fine as long as the music stands up to scrutiny . |
| 2 | Their attitude scarcely stands up to scrutiny . |
| 3 | ‘ We are delighted with the results so far , especially the performance , which stands up to comparison with the rest of the sports car world . |
| 4 | This is not , however , a presumption that stands up to examination . |
| 5 | If the Prime Minister thinks that all that adds up to recovery , he is not living in the real world . |
| 6 | All in all it adds up to power . |
| 7 | ‘ Everything — it all adds up to enchantment . ’ |
| 8 | Barry Fox wakes up to morning television |
| 9 | Life , predictably , never measures up to art . |
| 10 | We rarely find one who provides answers to all our questions , meets all our expectations and generally measures up to perfection ! |
| 11 | I felt I could whizz it round the country lanes on school runs and trips up to town . |
| 12 | As well as being simpler , this allows us to follow a historical sequence which leads up to serialism . |
| 13 | Walking over Mickleden the route leads up to Stake Pass and goes around the shores of Derwent Water to Keswick . |
| 14 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 15 | Well when it goes up to election , everything is good . |
| 16 | that 's our home produce snakes and ladders it does n't go on too much , it only goes up to number thirty |
| 17 | Perhaps the doctor would n't mind giving me a lift that morning when he drives up to town . ’ |
| 18 | I got five hundred , gets up to top of 's stepped off , who should be at bus stop , our Angela . |
| 19 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 20 | when it get 's up well who knows , sort of thing once it gets up to temperature |
| 21 | it like sends the thing down the old wiring and flicks the boiler off the same as with the heating once it gets up to temperature the boiler will cut off . |
| 22 | How misleading such changes can be unless one keeps up to date ! |
| 23 | Appropriate revision should ensure that the scheme keeps up to date , but large scale reclassifying remains unpopular and an uneasy balance between updating and stability must be maintained ; this balance is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain as knowledge changes rapidly . |
| 24 | Oh , the one that keeps up to date and updates the Oxford English |
| 25 | Some ensure that manufacturing technology remains up to date , while others are concerned with new products . |
| 26 | Geometry comes up to date |
| 27 | Taking a healthy interest in policies As the chairman of Greater Glasgow Health Board comes up to retirement , Susan Dean looks at the man behind the reforms |
| 28 | The way a society faces up to unemployment now may largely determine its social and economic health in the future . |
| 29 | Britain faces up to information technology |
| 30 | This brings up to date the edition of 1984 on this renowned homo-erotic painter with one foot still in the closet , including all of the artist 's paintings since that year . |