Example sentences of "[vb base] up to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Marketing is part of the media too , and much money and time is spent researching and showing how the media 's consumers — the readers and viewers — match up to the advertisers ' desired audience of consumers for his product .
2 Walk up to the gates and you feel like you have been sandbagged in the stomach .
3 Face up to the fats
4 These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area .
5 ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’
6 Pop up to the police station instead and get Sergeant Stansted to keep his eyes skinned .
7 Pettitt sees urban services in particular offering vast scope for expansion as city fathers wake up to the dangers from the car population explosion .
8 When will the Secretary of State wake up to the realities of public finance in the United Kingdom ?
9 Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground .
10 Go to the outer door and then go up to the dorms , but do it quietly .
11 go up to the shops by the egg basket if need be
12 If this happened the lighthouse-keeper would tell the warden , who would muster as many ‘ hands ’ as were available , and go up to the headlands where the lighthouses stood .
13 At the age of fourteen , you move up to the seniors , riding six-speed 125cc machines ( full size bike ) .
14 The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers .
15 The Institute is made up of three departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured ; Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods live up to the claims made by manufacturers ; and the Consumer Advice Service , which answers your questions and produces GHI Information Sheets .
16 there 's another meaning to the word respect , which is what is shown up by the Stoke Newington incident , and other similar incidents , in that , you can only respect somebody if they actually live up to the standards that they actually hold out to the rest of you .
17 As the lake mists rise up to the hills so the clouds trail down the mountains and valleys to embrace the earth .
18 It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped .
19 The sixty-four drawings and nineteen bozzetti and models lead up to the sculptures themselves forty-seven in all in both first and second versions .
20 Work up to the extremes . ’
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