Example sentences of "[vb -s] up to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a better gearbox , an engine that is simply in a different class and actually lives up to the promise made by its sleek shape . |
| 2 | The result , rendered into beautiful and economical English , lives up to the publisher 's claim of ‘ a new literary form ’ . |
| 3 | Er I liked to ask you erm about if you , if you think that Harlow lives up to the ideal of the New Town ? |
| 4 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 5 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
| 6 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 7 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 8 | It remains to be seen how Taggart 's vision stands up to the floodlights — and the driving rain . |
| 9 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 10 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 11 | First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ . |
| 12 | The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill . |
| 13 | Fortunately , Leinster 's front five , which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald , looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks . |
| 14 | Once you 've got that fourth equation in from all this lot adds up to the total , and that 's the one that you seem to be forgetting , that 's the one you 've got to try and remember . |
| 15 | The Pyramids , the Valley of the Kings , the towering columns of the ancient temple at Karnak , the lush valley of the Upper Nile where a felucca ( traditional sailing boat ) ride is one of the most peaceful experiences imaginable … it all adds up to the holiday of a lifetime . |
| 16 | Which adds up to the Eclipse doing things your way , not vice versa . |
| 17 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 18 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 19 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 20 | It is like a man who storms up to the top of a great mountain and then just drops down . |
| 21 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 22 | For high-pass walkers there is also from that road end a track up the spectacularly wild little valley of the Etzli which climbs up to the south . |
| 23 | At the end of the book of Deuteronomy Moses climbs up to the summit of Mount Nebo ‘ which is opposite Jericho ’ ( Deut. |
| 24 | South Africa wakes up to the threat of AIDS |
| 25 | He slouches up to the table . |
| 26 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |
| 27 | The left hand reaches up to the forehead , urging the brain to confirm a score line that , in years to come , will rank amongst the most shocking we have ever had to endure . |
| 28 | In an earthen-floor restaurant a young girl reaches up to the hatch to bring bowls of strongly coriander-flavoured potato soup to a rickety trestle table . |
| 29 | Andy reaches up to the iron grating and pulls at it . |
| 30 | An imposing wooden staircase and gallery leads up to the suites which have a bedroom and a sitting area or sitting room , a bathroom , TV and telephone . |