Example sentences of "[vb -s] up to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , with 192 instrument voices , 10 drum kits , 28 note polyphony , 16 part multi-timbrality and digital reverb , it lives up to its description better than most of its competitors . |
| 2 | Hence , their views , based as they are on personal first-hand experiences , form an important body of evidence about whether or to what extent Britain lives up to its reputation as a liberal democratic country . |
| 3 | I love ‘ gung-ho ’ blasting games , and Total Carnage lives up to its name . |
| 4 | Museo Nacional Reina Sofía at last lives up to its name |
| 5 | The position of the Belvedere ensures this hotel most certainly lives up to its name , affording some quite beautiful views of brilliant Lake Maggiore and the enchanting Borromean islands sitting in its centre . |
| 6 | It lives up to its name — small and pretty . |
| 7 | It would not be too misleading to say that it lives up to its name and represents a measure of the degree of " business " of the electron following that particular path . |
| 8 | June Makepeace , customer service assistant , lives up to her title |
| 9 | Whether he lives up to his promise as a future Tory leader may depend on his success in one of the hair shirt Government posts . |
| 10 | Sir Formal Trifle is a melancholy , po-faced rhetorician who will never use one short word if he can get his tongue round 50 long ones , while Sir Samuel Hearty hilariously lives up to his name . |
| 11 | International : The Comeback Kid lives up to his name again |
| 12 | And in the flesh he lives up to his image — at 58 he 's lean and fit , and with his tanned face and hallmark beard , he looks every bit the outdoor adventurer . |
| 13 | After passing through Enville the Way wanders through the lovely old village of Kinver and climbs up to its end on the sandstone ridge of Kinver Edge . |
| 14 | As I write by candlelight Ricardo Quispe Mamani himself climbs up to my room . |
| 15 | I am intrigued by the fires — the continuation of some ancient , Inca ceremony perhaps ? — so when Ricardo climbs up to my room this evening , I am ready with questions . |
| 16 | Only if the city wakes up to its need to shore up its bank of knowhow , will its superiority in Europe be secure , he suggests . |
| 17 | It is very unlikely that any opposition party will win an election until it convinces the electorate that it has an economic policy which is internally coherent and a defence policy which measures up to its name . |
| 18 | This is not the case however when the to infinitive is subject : although one still understands that the infinitive event is realized , there is nothing in such uses which specifies what leads up to its realization . |
| 19 | He just goes up to her cage and stands there , hardly even looking at her , and she quietens down quick as anything . ’ |
| 20 | Goes up to his garage . |
| 21 | Mm he normally goes up to his son 's every six weeks . |
| 22 | He strode off the course , goes up to his room and says to Winnie ( Mrs palmer ) , ‘ Do n't unpack , honey ; we 're going home . ’ |
| 23 | However , you secretly retain it and , when your hand goes up to your neck , you hide the coin in your collar . |
| 24 | He chuckled to himself as he drove , and had forgotten his worries by the time he had hauled two armfuls of grocery supplies up to his apartment . |
| 25 | There is no greater way to get the adrenalin flowing at the start of a race than when the commentator builds up to my name , the crowd waiting and then at its announcement bursting into loud cheering . |
| 26 | The silver-tongued fox saunters up to our singer and drops his bombshell . |
| 27 | Ricardo comes up to my room unannounced as usual . |