Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not be worried if your angles do not exactly add up to 180° As you become more accurate with your work , so you will get closer to 180° . |
| 2 | Those who promise great things do not always match up to their own or anyone else 's expectations ! |
| 3 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 4 | Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience . |
| 5 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 6 | What they are writing about in reality are the ideal standards of their own social group , those that give meaning to their work practice even if they do not always live up to them . |
| 7 | He must be ready to speculate , for the sources ( in this case the chronicles and records of government which provide him with much of his material ) do not always come up to expectation . |
| 8 | I beat down my excitement and wonder , knowing that a place can not possibly live up to expectations such as mine . |
| 9 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 10 | Because the body is deep it means the bream can not simply sidle up to a bait , suck it into its mouth and move on , all in one motion . |
| 11 | But no amount of tinkering with parental choice or national testing alters one main problem : many young black children do not even turn up to classes . |
| 12 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 13 | But putting these accounts together does not unfortunately add up to a multi-dimensional model which could provide the basis for a general theory ; it only amplifies their essentialism . |
| 14 | But all this did not yet add up to a widespread expectation in London that Anglo-American relations would or should retain their wartime intimacy . |
| 15 | But given the choice and understanding , most of us would probably still rather face up to distress . |
| 16 | The other use of concealed logicals is to enable you to have VMS directory structures deeper than 8 levels — but you can still only go up to 16 levels , as described below . |
| 17 | ‘ It does n't necessarily add up to going to bed . ’ |
| 18 | You do n't just walk up to someone and say , " Hi ! |
| 19 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 20 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 21 | That I do n't always feel up to … the way I used to . |
| 22 | Quite frequently they refuse to fulfil the roles that others impose and they do n't always live up to expectations . |
| 23 | He did n't really live up to expectations , he was n't he did n't work hard enough I feel , he was lazy and he was too used to teaching abroad |
| 24 | he wo n't really come up to your house I would n't think |
| 25 | It did n't quite reach up to Carfax , and it had another great landmark , as well as the big , rich college of Christchurch , and that was the Guildhall , built at the centre of the civic power , which was more or less , well , just where the Town Hall is now . |
| 26 | Not nearly so self-consciously ‘ modern ’ as , say , Slaves Of New York , this disaster-laden story of a Manhatten misfit who 's had enough does n't quite live up to the provocative promise of its title . |
| 27 | The action does n't quite live up to the presentation : it 's simple overhead-view stuff with no frills , but fun nonetheless . |
| 28 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating and while I found that McAfee VirusScan did n't quite live up to the advertisers ‘ claims , it was able to spot over 84 per cent of the infected files in my library . |
| 29 | When one of them could no longer come up to the scratch line at the beginning of a round he was held to have lost the match . |
| 30 | HI-FLI and AFLI are almost the same , the only difference is that they use high-resolution , and can therefore only use up to three different colours ( rather than one ) within a char . |