Example sentences of "[verb] up to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indications of the lasting potential of workwear comes with the news that the traditional companies are now opening up to new design suggestions coming from the UK . |
| 2 | Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level . |
| 3 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 4 | And so there they , they claim that his childhood was relevant , because of this character defect in , in Wilson , his inability to stand up to strong men . |
| 5 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 6 | A lightweight racer/trainer many look sleek on the shelf , but it is n't going to stand up to heavy mileage and regular forays off-road . |
| 7 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 8 | Before they met , Marshall announced the absurd news that enquiries in the rag trade had revealed that Trilyn , notorious for its inability to stand up to heavy wear , was most frequently used for trouser pockets . |
| 9 | As faith in the League declined , some called for a new alliance system — and a new Government — to stand up to fascist aggression . |
| 10 | my mate lived down that area then he , he moved up to far end Keighley end |
| 11 | These factors have added up to heavy oversubcription in France , and across Europe , where the lists have already closed ( British investors still have until Friday ) . |
| 12 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 13 | Buildings are not listed lightly : they have to come up to strict standards to qualify . |
| 14 | It adds up to unbeatable value . |
| 15 | ‘ Good resettlement adds up to good recruitment . ’ |
| 16 | If the muck heap is miles away it all adds up to precious minutes when you 're doing your horse before going to work . |
| 17 | This all adds up to huge difficulties in providing for the population . |
| 18 | Winnicott traces out how from infancy onwards individuals learn to make a space between themselves and others , and yet avoid total separation by ‘ the filling in of the potential space with creative living , with the use of symbols , and with all that adds up to cultural life ’ ( Winnicott , 1971 ) . |
| 19 | Whatever you choose it all adds up to luxury glamour , romance , elegance , and Citalia . |
| 20 | The event was part of the build up to Forbidden Britain Day on Sept 29 , when the ramblers plan mass trespasses at dozens of locations . |
| 21 | After running the filter for a few days , stock with just a couple of fish to begin with , and gradually build up to full stocking . |
| 22 | Ellison 's role with swing and seam may be crucial and it must be earnestly hoped that his back , the source of trouble in the past , holds up to increased demands . |
| 23 | This is perhaps believed by practitioners rather than being a view that holds up to epistemological scrutiny . |
| 24 | In Hamble village , their first precious spare hours were spent not in the pubs but in the Tesco 's supermarket watching shoppers walking up to overburdened shelves and putting all manner of goods in their baskets . ’ |
| 25 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 26 | The importance of behaviour matching up to assertive messages can not be over-emphasised . |
| 27 | Living up to other people 's signalled expectations is often a pleasure/pain experience : pleasure in the recognition we receive for satisfying others ' expectations , pain in the sense that we lose some of our independence and freedom . |
| 28 | LIVING up to great expectations should n't be a problem for Engine Alley . |
| 29 | Only by living up to Responsible Care and satisfying society 's continuously growing demands can the industry improve its image . |
| 30 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |