Example sentences of "[vb -s] up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 2 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 3 | The plain-clothed cockney sidles up to the moustached man , grinning . |
| 4 | EAST END gangster Harry Shand ( terrific , tough-talking turn by Bob Hoskins ) wakes up to the new age and discovers the IRA muscling in on his turf . |
| 5 | This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment . |
| 6 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 7 | Immediately behind the Treib-haus a good footpath leads up to the left , soon passing into an asphalted track which enters the TreibSeelisberg vehicle road . |
| 8 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 9 | So we see that if you have a school that goes up to the ninth grade , the Ministry covers the costs up to the sixth grade but the other years are paid for by parents . |
| 10 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 11 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 12 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 13 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 14 | The clubface effortlessly squares up to the ball-to-target line for a straight ball flight . |
| 15 | On a back street , just off Bucharest 's Bulevardul General Magheru , a spiral stone staircase winds up to the cramped first floor offices of Comturist . |
| 16 | Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both . |
| 17 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 18 | Until it comes up to the next page . |
| 19 | The party 's chair , Sara Parkin , said : " Unlike the other political parties , this manifesto faces up to the real issues " . |
| 20 | Quietly , unhesitatingly — just like that — he faces up to the moral consequences of his realization . |
| 21 | British Bulldog faces up to the big challenge |
| 22 | Yes that makes up to the total number of guns . |