Example sentences of "[vb -s] up to its [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |